Early French knee buckle

[Mathurin]

Got back to the same site where I found the toasted 1695-96 William III Shilling, but the field just had been plowed with deep ridges, making it a little more difficult for me to swing around !

Anyways I still got a keeper, a nice knee buckle (dating around 1660-1750).
Also found another musket ball in the woods nearby and got the chance to see a magnificent bald eagle gliding over the field at about 20-30 feets of me ! No pics of the eagle sorry ;-)








here is all the buckle parts I've found there (shoe buckles on the left, anchor chape and the knee buckle)



love that floral design shoe buckle :



thanks for looking !

 

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[romeo-1]

That's a beauty...and an old one to boot! Nice find!

 

[CRUSADER]

I haven't looked up the buckle, so what makes you say French? (Just interested, as I've had similar)

 

[Mathurin]

I haven't looked up the buckle, so what makes you say French? (Just interested, as I've had similar)

The seashell decoration, the french pottery found along it, the fact that the site I found it was found and occupied by French from 1650 to 1760.

here are some other French buckles : https://sites.google.com/site/archivesduforum/classique

 

[Mathurin]

That's a beauty...and an old one to boot! Nice find!

Thanks !

 

[Old Dude]

That is a wonderful relic. I still get a smile from old, white roundballs too!

 

[Garrett424]

She's a beauty all right.
Nice hunt.
Congrats.

 

[The Patriot]

Nice looking buckle...I believe I found the same one years back...If I find it I'll post it up..Congrats

 

[CRUSADER]

The seashell decoration, the french pottery found along it, the fact that the site I found it was found and occupied by French from 1650 to 1760.

here are some other French buckles : https://sites.google.com/site/archivesduforum/classique

This gets more interesting, many of those buckles on that site I find over here & I assumed they were manfactured here as well. I also know many of these are found all over Europe. So I wonder who manufactured what? Did we export lots of these or the other way around?

Problem is, my books don't focus on manufacturing sources & only look at type etc.

I think you are spot on with it being 1660-1720 & a Knee Buckle or small shoe buckle but I would like more info on different styles only being produced in 1 Country, or even being produced by us & then worn by the French.

If anyone out there has more info on manfacturing centres of these buckles including which type came from where that would be great - anyone please?

PS. all your other shoe frag bits are ones I've found before.

 

[CRUSADER]

Nice looking buckle...I believe I found the same one years back...If I find it I'll post it up..Congrats

Although it doesn't help piece together where it was made, what were the clues on your Site, all French as well?

 

[Mathurin]

This gets more interesting, many of those buckles on that site I find over here & I assumed they were manfactured here as well. I also know many of these are found all over Europe. So I wonder who manufactured what? Did we export lots of these or the other way around?

Problem is, my books don't focus on manufacturing sources & only look at type etc.

I think you are spot on with it being 1660-1720 & a Knee Buckle or small shoe buckle but I would like more info on different styles only being produced in 1 Country, or even being produced by us & then worn by the French.

If anyone out there has more info on manfacturing centres of these buckles including which type came from where that would be great - anyone please?

PS. all your other shoe frag bits are ones I've found before.

Can't help you with who made these buckles exactly, but I would love to see your buckles that are like mines, especially if they are complete !

thanks

 

[CRUSADER]

Can't help you with who made these buckles exactly, but I would love to see your buckles that are like mines, especially if they are complete !

thanks

OK, thats a shame, happy for anyone to wade in.

I had a quick scan of the hundreds of complete ones I had, & only saw one similar but not close enough to bother with a picture.
You may know that as a field hunter, the types you pictured are nearly always broken. I have an eidetic memory so I remember many of them but I only keep the complete ones. I have to draw the line somewhere, & pictured below is about 3 years worth that will be disposed of (sold) soon. I'm not going to dig through it, but you get the idea.

 

[CRUSADER]

Can't help you with who made these buckles exactly, but I would love to see your buckles that are like mines, especially if they are complete !

thanks

Cru'Dad reminded me of this picture of mine in the local Museum.

 

[Mathurin]

Cru'Dad reminded me of this picture of mine in the local Museum.

seems to be nice but for some reason I can't seem to be able to open it in larger size !

 

[sutphin]

HEY CRU IS THAT JUST ONE TUB OF BUCKLES FOLLWED BY MANY MORE TUBS OF RELICS UNBELEIVABLE ...

 

[sutphin]

HEY MATH NICE BUCKLE FIND AND SOME NICE ONES ...

 

[CRUSADER]

seems to be nice but for some reason I can't seem to be able to open it in larger size !

Because I only have a small image.

 

[CRUSADER]

HEY CRU IS THAT JUST ONE TUB OF BUCKLES FOLLWED BY MANY MORE TUBS OF RELICS UNBELEIVABLE ...

Its just a tub of broken buckles over the last 3 years.