Victorian cricket sporting buckle

[Relicific]

After spending 5 hours in the woods,this sporting buckle was my only find of the day.
Interesting to say the least,looks like there’s a ball in the middle
surrounded by several smaller cricket balls.
Since cricket is mostly unknown in Canada,I imagine this is probably British in origin.
Age wise I’m guessing late 19 th century?

 

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[Professor of Engineering]

Interesting find, congratulations!

 

[Hawks88]

That’s a cool find. Congrats!

 

[rastinirv]

There was a post in April where somebody found a cricket buckle and someone posted this link to an enormous compendium of dug cricket buckles. You might find yours in there! Here's the link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwENP4lMSuvCM2tFQ0RHVWJ1N1U/view

 

[Javadroid]

Methinks it fell off a wayward quidditch player...

 

[CRUSADER]

Maybe the shape & the centre 'ball' represents a cricket hat??

 

[Steve in PA]

Nice find. I found the one referenced above and the author of the Australian Cricket Buckle book sent me the link. Apparently they are quite collectable in Australia.
http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/today-s-finds/574005-easter-weekend-digs-rare-cricket-buckle.html

 

[Relicific]

There was a post in April where somebody found a cricket buckle and someone posted this link to an enormous compendium of dug cricket buckles. You might find yours in there! Here's the link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwENP4lMSuvCM2tFQ0RHVWJ1N1U/view

Thanks for the link.

 

[Relicific]

Maybe the shape & the centre 'ball' represents a cricket hat??

Hey that would make sense,I didn’t think of that.
Thank C

 

[Relicific]

Nice find. I found the one referenced above and the author of the Australian Cricket Buckle book sent me the link. Apparently they are quite collectable in Australia.
http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/today-s-finds/574005-easter-weekend-digs-rare-cricket-buckle.html

Thanks for the info

 

[Truth]

Any big buckle is awesome!!!!

 

[Bonzododa71]

Being a Brit I would say the ball in the middle is a "rugby" ball, but that is a beauty find.....HH....Bonz

 

[Vldetecting]

That's a really nice find! I love the patina and design on it!

 

[nagami]

interesting find,congrats

 

[mk4125]

Very interesting item! If the integrity of the buckle is good I would totally wear that.