🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Help identify and dating this suspender buckle and a possible corset clip

[anthrostudent]

Hi everyone I'm an archeology student and recently found a suspender buckle on one of the sites. My issue right now is that there's not a lot of information about them so I'm hoping yall can help. If you know anything about what time period this could come from or the make and model etc of this just anything at all please let me know.

 

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[vpnavy]

Until a member(s) pipes in - I searched

and found...

REALLY COOL Suspender Buckle (Jul 1, 2013)

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[villagenut]

Probably from 1890 to 1910....but I would presume you have datable, associated artifacts from the same strata to give you a TPQ of that level.....

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

The images attached below show your smaller item's ID beyond doubt.

Note, although your Corset Busk-Fastener was US-Patented in 1859, its design works so well that it is still being manufactured today. That being said, yours is most probably from the late-1800s through early-1900s, before corsets fell out of public favor.

 

[Gene Mean]

Interesting finds, congrats! Were they near each other? Maybe a young man and woman were in the middle of something when those were lost😁

 

[anthrostudent]

Interesting finds, congrats! Were they near each other? Maybe a young man and woman were in the middle of something when those were lost😁

Hi yes, That's the theory I'm personally going with too😂

 

[anthrostudent]

Probably from 1890 to 1910....but I would presume you have datable, associated artifacts from the same strata to give you a TPQ of that level.....

yea, i was thinking the same but the issue is that a lot of the artifacts were dumped into a hole at what seems like an episode of 1 big dump so the time periods have quite a big range for the stuff we've found so far. we've only just started sorting them.

 

[CRUSADER]

I'm guessing you know the small object next to it is part of a Victorian Whale Bone Corset lace fastener?

 

[BuckleBoy]

I'm guessing you know the small object next to it is part of a Victorian Whale Bone Corset lace fastener?

I wouldn’t say it’s from a whalebone busk, just an iron one. These fasteners had two prongs which fit into the iron busk.

 

[Gene Mean]

I don't know much about corsets but this is good info-

Bone (corsetry) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org