Beautiful 18th century shoe buckle frame

[brianc053]

Hi everyone. Here's a quick post to show you the beautiful shoe buckle frame I found yesterday at a 1750s house in my town.
The homeowner is very proud of the history of his house, and when granting permission to detect there he'd told me, "Please give me something you find from the 1700s".
Well, it looks like I delivered!

First picture is the cleaned up buckle frame, but the rest of the pictures show:

• the buckle frame as it came out of the ground
• after I carefully removed the dirt (using Andre's Pencil's only)
• and then as I ultimately mounted and displayed it.
• The final picture is all finds from 2 hours of detecting.

I dropped the finished display off at his house this morning and he was blown away! (And then told me I could come back any time I wanted! There's still a lot to find there - I've only scratched the surface!)

- Brian

 

[The Rebel]

WTG on that beauty!

 

[detectorcowboy]

Nice and it's intact and in one piece

 

[villagenut]

I liiiiikeee it!

 

[Blak bart]

I like that alot....congrats 👏 👏!! What a killer patina on that beauty !!

 

[devldog]

Great Saves of the shoe buckle. A Real BEWT! I wish you Continued Success at the old home site. The Display looks great also.

 

[djackson7348]

Nice! That was a classy move doing that for the property owner.

 

[☠️🏴☠️SCOLINO🏴☠️☠️]

Hi everyone. Here's a quick post to show you the beautiful shoe buckle frame I found yesterday at a 1750s house in my town.
The homeowner is very proud of the history of his house, and when granting permission to detect there he'd told me, "Please give me something you find from the 1700s".
Well, it looks like I delivered!

First picture is the cleaned up buckle frame, but the rest of the pictures show:

• the buckle frame as it came out of the ground
• after I carefully removed the dirt (using Andre's Pencil's only)
• and then as I ultimately mounted and displayed it.
• The final picture is all finds from 2 hours of detecting.

I dropped the finished display off at his house this morning and he was blown away! (And then told me I could come back any time I wanted! There's still a lot to find there - I've only scratched the surface!)

- Brian

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Outstanding!

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Congrats on the shoe buckle frame Brian, your patient restoration work paid off nicely.
I also find it very decent that you agreed to give the property owner any finds from the 1700s too.

Best of luck in finding some period coinage if you head back.
Dave

 

[JeffInMass]

Job well done! Can't help but feel that extra effort you made for the owner will provide good karma on your next trip- GL!

 

[LandSeig]

Nice find and nice display good job. I wish we could vote honorable mention for gifts to the landowner like this.

 

[Florida Finder]

Hi everyone. Here's a quick post to show you the beautiful shoe buckle frame I found yesterday at a 1750s house in my town.
The homeowner is very proud of the history of his house, and when granting permission to detect there he'd told me, "Please give me something you find from the 1700s".
Well, it looks like I delivered!

First picture is the cleaned up buckle frame, but the rest of the pictures show:

• the buckle frame as it came out of the ground
• after I carefully removed the dirt (using Andre's Pencil's only)
• and then as I ultimately mounted and displayed it.
• The final picture is all finds from 2 hours of detecting.

I dropped the finished display off at his house this morning and he was blown away! (And then told me I could come back any time I wanted! There's still a lot to find there - I've only scratched the surface!)

- Brian

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Awesome job on that one! Congratulations

 

[Blak bart]

It looks stellar in that frame !!

 

[Gare]

NICE FIND

 

[Silvermonkey]

WTG Brian! You created a beautiful show piece that the home owner will cherish forever. In return you received an open-ended permission. That is totally a win-win situation in my book. Fantastic!

 

[PetesPockets55]

... The homeowner is very proud of the history of his house, and when granting permission to detect there he'd told me, "Please give me something you find from the 1700s".
Well, it looks like I delivered!.....

I dropped the finished display off at his house this morning and he was blown away! (And then told me I could come back any time I wanted! There's still a lot to find there - I've only scratched the surface!)

- Brian

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And that folks is how to get invited back to detect again ... and again ... and ...
Great find and presentation to the homeowner. Congrats on a superb job cleaning it up.

 

[dfx'er]

Beautiful Shoe buckle frame the six pointed embossed star rosettes are excellent , a buckle manufactured late in the last quarter no doubt . great find

 

[Bamasteve]

Great recoveries and awesome gift for the owner!

 

[Shakakka]

Did you frame your frame, bro?

JK, that's a beautiful one.

 

[oldmxrat]

Killer recovery and wonderful presentation, congrats!