colonial shoe buckle and 1819 l.c.

[leddel]

Coinnut (George)and i hit a couple of sites today , not only were we looking out for deer hunters but the wind was so strong you had to watchout for falling tree branches( and some were pretty big to ).i had the lucky coil today and found a very nice complete colonial shoe buckle ( it still has its brass pin so the chape and tongue move freely ) it gave off a great tone and was surprisingly shallow ( about 2 1/2 inches deep) i thought for sure it was going to be a beer can . a little later had another great tone at about 5 inches (love those solid 84 vdi's at that depth ) and out popped up was the 1819 large cent copper ( looks like someone was carving on the back of this one) and a few buttons round out the day. hey thanks for looking and hurry up and get out there people.

Dan

 

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[romeo-1]

Great buckle! Rare to find complete!

 

[FooserPaul]

Dan,

Great digs! You have to be pretty close to 40 LC's for the year now....

HH!
Paul

 

[The Seeker]

Congrats......... on a sweet buckle! The wind was intense today here in the northeast. As long as the snows not flying........WTG

 

[Brian(upstateNY-Central Fla.)]

Beautiful finds Love that buckle
Go back and hit the area more

 

[Don in SJ]

Nice to get a working complete shoe buckle, got a few, one complete working one earlier this fall, but last week, got one with complete frame, but only the center brass pin there, first one like that where it was complete but missing the tongue and chafe. The 1819 cleaned up good, I still think those years were good cooper, so many in that era come out pretty good.

Don

 

[Kyle PA]

Dan the Colonial Man, that complete buckle is amazing! I'd love to dig one!

Congrats on the largie as well! You are in the copper zone, my bud!

Kyle

 

[crazyjarhead]

That buckle cleaned up nicely

 

[leddel]

Great buckle! Rare to find complete!

your absolutely right Romeo-1

Dan,

Great digs! You have to be pretty close to 40 LC's for the year now....

HH!

hey Paul thanks , this makes 35 large coppers for the year
Paul

Congrats......... on a sweet buckle! The wind was intense today here in the northeast. As long as the snows not flying........WTG

thank you Seeker , yeah i thought i was going to get hit from branches more than a few times today.

Beautiful finds Love that buckle
Go back and hit the area more

thanks Brian , will do

Nice to get a working complete shoe buckle, got a few, one complete working one earlier this fall, but last week, got one with complete frame, but only the center brass pin there, first one like that where it was complete but missing the tongue and chafe. The 1819 cleaned up good, I still think those years were good cooper, so many in that era come out pretty good.

Don

thank you Don , the coin is a date i didn't have so i'm not complaining

Dan the Colonial Man, that complete buckle is amazing! I'd love to dig one!

Congrats on the largie as well! You are in the copper zone, my bud!

Kyle

i had to post this for you and Kirk i know how he drools for shoe buckles , i really hope you guys get a few whole ones before the freeze. take care

That buckle cleaned up nicely

yeah this area has been kind to the items recovered, thanks

 

[garthbfan169]

WOW what a day leddel Sweet finds!!

 

[Sniffy]

Completely awesome shoe buckle...I have to post a pic of mine. I was floored when I found this as I'm sure you were as well. That large cent looks nice, to bad someone scabbed it up a bit.

 

[leddel]

Completely awesome shoe buckle...I have to post a pic of mine. I was floored when I found this as I'm sure you were as well. That large cent looks nice, to bad someone scabbed it up a bit.

very nice shoe buckle Sniffy ya find that out with Dave

 

[BuckleBoy]

That beautiful buckle is the find of the day for certain.


Cheers,



Buck

 

[Sniffy]

Completely awesome shoe buckle...I have to post a pic of mine. I was floored when I found this as I'm sure you were as well. That large cent looks nice, to bad someone scabbed it up a bit.

very nice shoe buckle Sniffy ya find that out with Dave

No I found this up in Cape Cod. My aunt lives on Colonial land, her neighbors home was built in the early 1700's. I passed over this shoe buckle probally a dozen times. It was near a metal fence and pegged it a false signal. Finnaly my last day there after I cleaned the yard out, I decided to dig. And I'm glad I did. However, Dave did dig a complete shoe buckle and Vermont copper at a site I brought him to.

 

[CRUSADER]

Great buckle! Rare to find complete!

Yeah, I'm getting sick of complete exmples on here, can't find any over here that are not in pieces

 

[Kirk PA]

You saved a sparkling piece of Colonial history. Thanks for doing that, Dan!

Kirk

 

[Iron Patch]

Very nice buckle, only got one early complete one, but will continue looking for one like that.

 

[leddel]

WOW what a day leddel Sweet finds!!

thank you Garthfan

That beautiful buckle is the find of the day for certain.


Cheers,



Buck

yes it was the best find of the day , thanks

Great buckle! Rare to find complete!

Yeah, I'm getting sick of complete exmples on here, can't find any over here that are not in pieces

well i'll tell what , trade ya one for a couple of Roman bronzes Crusader

You saved a sparkling piece of Colonial history. Thanks for doing that, Dan!

Kirk

you know it dude , these are more fun than digging a copper .thanks

Very nice buckle, only got one early complete one, but will continue looking for one like that.

thanks Patch hope you get it soon my friend .