🥇 BANNER Ornate Silver Shoe Buckle

[Dust Eater]

Out about 350 feet away from the root cellar and not getting anything besides shotgun shells. Then about 20 feet from a stone wall I got a solid 97 on the XP Deus' high frequency coil. The shoe buckle frame contains around .8 ounces of silver. I decided to keep the rusted chape, as it provides some authenticity and gives a nice bit of contrast to the silver frame. When I saw the shoe buckle come out of the ground it didn't look like silver at all. Glad I was wrong about that.

 

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[trapperart]

Great find congrats

 

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[Silver Saver]

Been waiting for this one to show up top. Such a pretty and rare unique find. Grats on the banner buckle!!

 

[mindcrime1988]

Fantastic find. I bet you're still smiling from digging up this relic.

 

[jt101319]

congrats man!

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Don't worry about not saving the chape D.E., you found the best part!
Congratulations on achieving your first Tnet BANNER!

Dave

 

[jewelerguy]

ranks among the best shoe buckles I've seen posted. awesome find. congrats!

 

[doggoneitdignit]

Yeah, nice find on that buckle havn't seen one like that in a long time. Great job!

 

[deldave]

.8 oz

 

[Rick (Nova Scotia)]

A very special find for sure. After 10 years of finds my top ten list has some lofty stuff on it, and a silver buckle of any kind (shoe, or knee etc.) is still on mine.
They are certainly rare to find, someone mentioned not seeing one before, well as we know screwynewy found one.
Silver tree chaser one, http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/t...sual-button-spanish-silver-nipple-button.html
And if I'm not mistaken Heavy Metal Nut might have found one.
Tough, tough find, congrats.

 

[DownNDirty]

Congrats on receiving a well-deserved banner

 

[grasshopper]

Wow. Stellar find.

 

[coinman123]

Wow!! Congratulations on that amazing piece of colonial history! I love the engraving on it, very well deserved banner! I was lucky enough to find 2/3 of a colonial silver shoe buckle with "S.P. to G.R." engraved underneath it, and spent weeks trying to find the other piece. I never was able to find the missing piece though sadly!

 

[K1DDO1979]

Don’t know how i missed this but congrats big time. Thats a beauty of a shoe buckle. I always feel super lucky for finding my colonial silver knee buckle. Thats a bucket lister you found for sure. Looks great up top and i would’ve voted for it myself! [emoji2][emoji106]

 

[Silver Tree Chaser]

Congrats on making a well-deserved banner recovery. Lots of members chasing Colonial-Period finds have all commented on the same point throughout this thread - it's an ultra-rare find. Some may find a fragment of a silver buckle (usually plow fodder) or a complete buckle with applied silver over brass, but a solid silver buckle is very hard to find. Your recovery of a rather large buckle with an ornate design in such a state of preservation is fantastic. A single find like that for me would make for a great season of detecting even if nothing else followed till the end of the year. Awesome recovery.

 

[Daryn]

Beautiful buckle for sure. Eight ounces of silver! That's a half a pound! Surely that buckle was worth quite a bit in trade even if it wasn't functional. Well that's good for a Banner vote!

I think it said 0.8 ounces but either way I’d love to dig that up

 

[Davers]

Out about 350 feet away from the root cellar and not getting anything besides shotgun shells. Then about 20 feet from a stone wall I got a solid 97 on the XP Deus' high frequency coil. The shoe buckle frame contains around .8 ounces of silver. I decided to keep the rusted chape, as it provides some authenticity and gives a nice bit of contrast to the silver frame. When I saw the shoe buckle come out of the ground it didn't look like silver at all. Glad I was wrong about that.

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Def , 'keep eating that Dust'. lol

It paid off Nicely

BTW I would have kept & would preserve the iron innards as well.
Davers

 

[eyemustdigtreasure]

Banner Find, all the way...!
REAL Treasure...!
....continued GL+HH...!

 

[birdman]

That's real treasure right there!

 

[Leann]

Beautiful find. Congratulations!

 

[Showtime2385]

love it!