Found a colonial shoe buckle... at a flea market!

[paleomaxx]

No time to detect this past weekend due to a family reunion, but I did stop at a roadside flea market on the way back and was very surprised to fine one of these in a box of random trinkets:



It's a huge Georgian shoe buckle, but of a plain variety so I doubt it's worth much. Still, unlike my dug examples, it's nice to have an iron chape that's fully intact to show people what they looked like whole. I can't imagine how long this has been knocking around boxes of random bits until it was finally spotted by me.

 

[Mzjavert]

That's why I like flea markets. Hope you got a good deal.

 

[paleomaxx]

That's why I like flea markets. Hope you got a good deal.

It was actually a very reasonable $10. Lately I've been going to more flea markets looking for just this sort of thing; non-dug pieces to go with the dug examples. Makes for a great display!

 

[Kurios1]

It was actually a very reasonable $10. Lately I've been going to more flea markets looking for just this sort of thing; non-dug pieces to go with the dug examples. Makes for a great display!

$10.00 Federal Reserve Notes for a genuine piece of history is a flipping BARGAIN! Great score and idea to collect some intact treasures to go with the ones that may not be so nice when dug. Brilliant!

 

[trapperart]

Congrats on the buckle

 

[pepperj]

nicely done, it's a great piece.

 

[mk4125]

Dangggg...look at the SIZE of that thing! It could double as a hay-bailer in the fall possibly.

 

[WannaDig3687]

Good eye. Congratulations!

 

[tanz 82]

Nice find