cmthunder
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Is this a buckle?
How old?
How old?
✅ SOLVED Is is a buckle?
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Upon being (correcctly) told by Smokeythecat that his maybe-buckle find is actually a shoe heel-plate, Cmthunder replied:
> Farm dates to 1694.
> Farm dates to 1694.
> Pretty small shoe then.
That version of heel-plate, having curved sides, a "cutout" center, and three holes for attaching it to the shoe's heel, is small because this type was made for a Ladies' shoe's small heel. It dates from the 1880s onward (not from the civil war). The one in the photo below has the same shape as yours, except a heart-shaped cutout. A dump-digger found this amazingly well-preserved leather Ladies' fancy High-Top shoe/boot deeply buried in an 1880s town dump in Colorado. You can tell the small size of the heel by comparing it with the rest of the shoe.
That version of heel-plate, having curved sides, a "cutout" center, and three holes for attaching it to the shoe's heel, is small because this type was made for a Ladies' shoe's small heel. It dates from the 1880s onward (not from the civil war). The one in the photo below has the same shape as yours, except a heart-shaped cutout. A dump-digger found this amazingly well-preserved leather Ladies' fancy High-Top shoe/boot deeply buried in an 1880s town dump in Colorado. You can tell the small size of the heel by comparing it with the rest of the shoe.
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