BUCKLE BEAUTY...1683 Mass Property

[btjbtj]

UPDATE--WOW!! BUCKLE BEAUTY...1683 Mass Property

Hi gang,

We found our most complete and pretty buckle yet. It cleaned up nicely! I'm having some difficulty dating it. I have attached a bunch of photos. Also found this cool little thimble. We're off to check out your "today's finds." Thanks for looking. -Lisa & John

UPDATE--Guys, John pulled out that huge shoe buckle frame he found a few weeks back, and would you believe that the shoe buckle innards fit exactly into it?! Check out the new photos. Even the brass looks and feels the same. Coincidence? Found them about 100 feet apart. Hey, even if it is a coincidence, it's so cool. Thanks for looking. -L&J

 

[relic nut]

You guys are tearing it up. Great buckle
Congrats

HH RN

 

[btjbtj]

Thanks, Relic! We're slowly building a museum exhibit! Hehehe. -L&J

 

[CRUSADER]

Its only the guts of an 18th C shoe buckle, the main frame is missing.

 

[flatbutton]

Just the guts like Cru said, but really clean. Good stuff! Congrats

 

[bill from lachine]

Neat find on the shoe buckle...maybe you can locate the outer frame if you remember the general area you found it.

Regards + HH

Bill

 

[btjbtj]

Cru, Flat, and Bill--really?? That entire apparatus belongs inside something? I had no idea they could be that large! I thought that hinge part fold over and that was the size of the whole thing. Ok, thanks, I'll tell John to look for the frame in the same area! -L&J

 

[bill from lachine]

Lisa,

If you go back and look at the pictures of the buckle....you can see the protrusions on both sides where the outer frame would have fitted/swiveled.

Check out the link and yours looks very similar to the 2nd from left top row missing the outer frame.

https://www.google.ca/search?q=18th...sch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiX74izn

Regards + HH

Bill

Cru, Flat, and Bill--really?? That entire apparatus belongs inside something? I had no idea they could be that large! I thought that hinge part fold over and that was the size of the whole thing. Ok, thanks, I'll tell John to look for the frame in the same area! -L&J

 

[btjbtj]

Lisa,

If you go back and look at the pictures of the buckle....you can see the protrusions on both sides where the outer frame would have fitted/swiveled.

Regards + HH

Bill

Aha! I see! Ok, Bill, thanks a bunch. I feel a bit foolish for not figuring that out. We'll look for the frame! -L

 

[bill from lachine]

Lisa,

No need to feel foolish none of us including yours truly were around in the 1700's well maybe I'm close....

So how would we know other than experience and research....we all try to do our bit to find out about the finds we all make.

Regards + HH

Bill

 

[CRUSADER]

Cru, Flat, and Bill--really?? That entire apparatus belongs inside something? I had no idea they could be that large! I thought that hinge part fold over and that was the size of the whole thing. Ok, thanks, I'll tell John to look for the frame in the same area! -L&J

Yeap, some of them are crazy large, like their buttons...lol

 

[btjbtj]

Lisa,

No need to feel foolish none of us including yours truly were around in the 1700's well maybe I'm close....

So how would we know other than experience and research....we all try to do our bit to find out about the finds we all make.

Regards + HH

Bill

Bill, thanks. �� We learn something new every day on this awesome site! -L&J

 

[K1DDO1979]

Great find. I usually have the opposite problem. Frames and no guts! Haha

 

[bill from lachine]

Lisa,

BTW before Cru corrects me my statement above about the swiveling it's the inner guts that do the swiveling and not the frame....

Regards + HH

Bill

 

[Professor of Engineering]

A very nice find!

I believe it is the inner part of a Georgian shoe buckle (c1720 - 1770's).

Doc

 

[BARKER]

Hi; Please Post that Buclle in the Buckles Forum as well ok. The guys there will nail it for you ok. PEACE:RONB

 

[btjbtj]

Great find. I usually have the opposite problem. Frames and no guts! Haha

K, we've had that happen, too! Sometimes cuz the guts are iron. This one seems to be brass though. Thanks, -L&J

 

[btjbtj]

Hi; Please Post that Buclle in the Buckles Forum as well ok. The guys there will nail it for you ok. PEACE:RONB

Oh! Thanks, Ron! -L&J

 

[btjbtj]

Hey guys--I just remembered about this giant buckle frame John found a few weeks back. Wouldn't it be cool if it fit these innards?? Probably just dreaming, as this frame probably had iron innards that rotted out. I'm going to ask him to try pairing them up anyway. Thanks everyone! -L&J

 

[Driftwoood]

Missing frame or not, that is a sweet find! Congrats!!