French Colonial-1752 silver, cut silver, knee&shoe buckles & silver Auspice Maria

[Scrappy]

That's a awesome site you found, beautiful silver and buckles, congratulations on all the historical saves

Thank you. With the thickness of the woods I didn’t think I had a very good chance of finding the site, especially with no tell tails. I lucked out.

[Scrappy]

Congratualtions on the excellent hunt!

Thank you. I’ll certainly look back fondly at this excursion! Cheers

[xcopperstax]

What an amazing and productive hunt! Congrats!

[Steve in PA]

Congrats on a stellar hunt Steve. Good to see yo back to digging and posting. Love the cufflink, the French silver and the buckles. i have found a few of those little breeches buckles.

[treblehunter]

Love that cufflink, the coins are awesome too. I've got to get out soon, been too busy catching fish.

[Switchblade]

Nice saves!

[Scrappy]

Steve were there snakes in the plane ?
Who puts snakes on a plane ?

If Samuel Jackson heard you butcher his quote like that to avoid getting censored, he’d slap you with a black mamba

[Hawks88]

Your research paid off big time. I would be happy with anyone of those saves. Congrats.

[Scrappy]

Congrats on a stellar hunt Steve. Good to see yo back to digging and posting. Love the cufflink, the French silver and the buckles. i have found a few of those little breeches buckles.

Good to hear from you Steve. It’s good to be back. That buckle was certainly small. Often I’ve heard they’re for breeches or boot cuffs when they’re that small. But this one is the smallest I’ve ever seen. Do you have any the size of a dime??

[Steve in PA]

Good to hear from you Steve. It’s good to be back. That buckle was certainly small. Often I’ve heard they’re for breeches or boot cuffs when they’re that small. But this one is the smallest I’ve ever seen. Do you have any the size of a dime??

Steve, I have three that are about the size of a dime. I only had one handy that I could photograph with a dime, but I had a picture of another with a small oval cuff link beside it and the other fancy one is about the same size. They all have the curvature of a shoe or knee buckle.

[toasted]

Good to hear from you Steve. It’s good to be back. That buckle was certainly small. Often I’ve heard they’re for breeches or boot cuffs when they’re that small. But this one is the smallest I’ve ever seen. Do you have any the size of a dime??

Ive found a few of those. Whiteheads Buckles book calls them boot or garter buckles

[Scrappy]

Love that cufflink, the coins are awesome too. I've got to get out soon, been too busy catching fish.

Thanks Brad. Better get some more hunting in before the fields are 90 degrees!

[Scrappy]

Your research paid off big time. I would be happy with anyone of those saves. Congrats.

Sometimes you get lucky. The woods were so dense that nothing could be seen, nor were there any visible remnants of the site. So yes, had my research not given me the exact spot I would have missed it.

[Scrappy]

Steve, I have three that are about the size of a dime. I only had one handy that I could photograph with a dime, but I had a picture of another with a small oval cuff link beside it and the other fancy one is about the same size. They all have the curvature of a shoe or knee buckle.

Ok, good to hear. I saw the ones in the book but mine had always been larger, perhaps 3/4” to 1”. It’s a bummer the chape wasn’t brass and is rusted out.

[Blak bart]

Congrats scrappy nice work as usual. Looks good on the banner board.