Post Your Favorite Buckles

[romeo-1]

There have been a lot of great buckles found over the years...and some real beauties this past season. Post up your favs.

I'll start...

Early French buckle

 

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[timekiller]

Seeing those buckles the first thing that comes to mind is all the people who often state just how difficult it is to find a Colonial copper in their area... and I believe it's the truth because I hunt quite old sites and have never dug one of the early buckles in the first picture.

I fit that statement to a tee...... not many coppers around these parts.But man not found buckles like that either.Thought I was doing something with these old boys............But I've been schooled It's weird how things can be so different just a 100 or so miles away.

 

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[Bill D. (VA)]

Wow Bill, perhaps the best collection of early colonial buckles found in US that I have seen, and yes that last buckle is a killer find!

Don

Thanks Don. That buckle in the last pic came from a trash pit at the hammered silver site and I actually eyeballed it. Hopefully I would have found it with the detector anyway, but it was pretty cool to see that laying on top of a shovelful of dirt that I had just thrown out from 3 ft down in the pit. Here's a pic of it right after picking it up from the dirt pile along with some of the other items found in the pit that day.

 

[umrgolf]

Re: Here's a few of mine

The one in the last pic is my favorite - c1680.

Bill, I agree with Don.. That is amazing

 

[oldsoapy]

My favorite one is this one: found deep in the sand under the cliffs on the south coast of
"The Ilse of Wight" UK. (l like to think it was owned by a Pirate) it is about 3inches in diameter, and looks as it is low grade silver. the tang is very rusty.

 

[steelheadwill]

Stunning early Collection Bill
Nice Big Silver John
I see that broken trapezoids are pretty common, (I got the bigger half of mine )
Here's the last one to came out of the creek, Just as shown. Brassy

 

[Newfiehunter]

Here's my silver shoe buckle. It was made by Thomas Northcote probably in the 1780's. There is a British Hallmark of the Lion passant indicating that it is sterling silver and his initials TN. It is about the size of a postage stamp.

 

[birdman]

My small collection.The breast plate is my favorite but I wish it were whole.

 

[CASPER-2]

colonial silver shoe buckle = found in R.I. in saltwater

 

[highnam]

woman's two piece belt buckle found in 100 year old pacific northwest railroad logging camp. Found each side two months apart

 

[steelheadwill]

Here's my silver shoe buckle. It was made by Thomas Northcote probably in the 1780's. There is a British Hallmark of the Lion passant indicating that it is sterling silver and his initials TN. It is about the size of a postage stamp.

STUNNING!

 

[steelheadwill]

colonial silver shoe buckle = found in R.I. in saltwater

Any attempts at removing that encrustation?
You might have a beauty under there.
Ive found some silver with the same crust, it should crumble right off.
what is underneath can be hit or miss...
Copper usually fares less well.
One silver that came out in good shape was a 1620s 4reale cob.
shows that even silver that's been in SW a LONG time can survive in that crust.
My encrusted Cob looked just like these examples of cookie coins,
from crushed shell layer under mud.
Best wishes, Herbie.

 

[reale bill]

mid 1800's sash buckle, don't know if it is military. its silver plated,but someone has taken the time to scratch the plating off the front (to cut down the shine ?)

 

[IAMZIM]

Only found a few buckles that i really felt were worthy of display. My snake buckle and two shell buckles, one is missing the tang.

 

[leddel]

some of my colonial knee and shoe buckles .


Dan

 

[goldencoin]

Found this one in Michigan, I've been told it is an early French Buckle, but not much beyond that.

HH
-GC