Unknown find from 18th Century Homestead - SOLVED

[pjroo33]

Looking for a little help on this unknown. It was found at about 4 inches at a home built around 1750. Any help is appreciated.

 

[True_Metal]

Re: Unknown find from 18th Century Homestead

Some type of buckle perhaps.

 

[dg39]

Re: Unknown find from 18th Century Homestead

My thoughts, a colonial shoe buckle. Very Nice! If verified, may be a BANNER item.
DG

 

[pjroo33]

Re: Unknown find from 18th Century Homestead

Forgot I had even found it. It was pretty encrusted with dirt until I washed it off about an hour ago. Hoping it's a colonial shoe buckle. Would be my first.

 

[Montana Jim]

Re: Unknown find from 18th Century Homestead

This is a beautiful example!

This one is really nice, I am going to let a Colonial enthusiast from back east break the news to you on this buckle.

That is great!

Agreed!

This is an awesome example of a 1600s - 1700s shoe, knee, or strap buckle based on my little bit of research.

 

[dg39]

Re: Unknown find from 18th Century Homestead

Give us some details, where found , how, etc.
DG

 

[CRUSADER]

Re: Unknown find from 18th Century Homestead

A Type V buckle from 1660-1720.

Would have been fitted with a folded sheet buckle plate (some of it visable under the rust), this would have rivited it to a strapend. Most likely a shoe or knee buckle

 

[pjroo33]

Re: Unknown find from 18th Century Homestead

That is awesome!! My good friend Ryan got permission for us to hunt a homestead outside of Philadelphia. I didn't have a whole lot of time because my wife just had our first child 2 weeks ago. My mother was in town to see the baby for a week and I got the wife's ok to head out for a couple hours. We spent maybe 2 hrs at the site. I found 2 Merc. Dimes 1929 and 1943. Nothing else except a couple clads and this buckle. Ryan pulled a 1816 Coronet Large Cent as our time was running out. Needless to say, I was scrambling at that point. He knows a lot of history of the area and said that the middle section of the house was built in the 1600's, and the section near where we were hunting had a date stone of 1752 (I think) might have been 1754. I found the buckle about halfway through the hunt and didn't give it a second thought. It was so dirt encrusted It was pretty unrecognizable. Got home and cleaned off the Mercs and started tending to the wife and baby. Today (7 days later), I decided to have a look at that "unknown" find that was still in my bag from the hunt. As I was washing off the dirt, I began to see some detail. Thats when I decided I'd better have some experts take a look.

How confident are we that it is a Type V buckle from 1660-1720?

If thats the case, it's my oldest find to date.

Thanks for the help everyone!

 

[CoolFrayers]

Re: Unknown find from 18th Century Homestead

What is something like this worth?

 

[dg39]

Re: Unknown find from 18th Century Homestead

Sounds to me like you had better go back and spend some time there! Value wise, I would not know. But it is without a doubt a museum quality item.
DG

 

[relichunters]

Re: Unknown find from 18th Century Homestead

Here is another one.

http://www.horsesoldier.com/catalog/r14148.JPEG

 

[Montana Jim]

Re: Unknown find from 18th Century Homestead

http://www.artifacts.org/Fleetpage.htm

Scroll...

 

[dg39]

Re: Unknown find from 18th Century Homestead

http://www.artifacts.org/Fleetpage.htm

Scroll...

Much more in that league!
DG

 

[CRUSADER]

Re: Unknown find from 18th Century Homestead

That is awesome!! My good friend Ryan got permission for us to hunt a homestead outside of Philadelphia. I didn't have a whole lot of time because my wife just had our first child 2 weeks ago. My mother was in town to see the baby for a week and I got the wife's ok to head out for a couple hours. We spent maybe 2 hrs at the site. I found 2 Merc. Dimes 1929 and 1943. Nothing else except a couple clads and this buckle. Ryan pulled a 1816 Coronet Large Cent as our time was running out. Needless to say, I was scrambling at that point. He knows a lot of history of the area and said that the middle section of the house was built in the 1600's, and the section near where we were hunting had a date stone of 1752 (I think) might have been 1754. I found the buckle about halfway through the hunt and didn't give it a second thought. It was so dirt encrusted It was pretty unrecognizable. Got home and cleaned off the Mercs and started tending to the wife and baby. Today (7 days later), I decided to have a look at that "unknown" find that was still in my bag from the hunt. As I was washing off the dirt, I began to see some detail. Thats when I decided I'd better have some experts take a look.

How confident are we that it is a Type V buckle from 1660-1720?

If thats the case, it's my oldest find to date.

Thanks for the help everyone!

Very.

 

[CRUSADER]

Re: Unknown find from 18th Century Homestead

http://www.colchestertreasurehunting.co.uk/B/buckles.htm

http://www.netmarshall.co.uk/bucklepage18.htm

Some proof...

 

[jimbob450]

Re: Unknown find from 18th Century Homestead

Very good find. Has the Colonial seen this? Jim

 

[RELICDUDE07]

Re: Unknown find from 18th Century Homestead

Very nice find..Keep up the search at the field, some were made of gold also.Goodluck to ya............relic

 

[pjroo33]

Re: Unknown find from 18th Century Homestead

Is there any value to a buckle like this? Is there a way to tell whether it is a knee or shoe buckle?

 

[CRUSADER]

Re: Unknown find from 18th Century Homestead

Is there any value to a buckle like this? Is there a way to tell whether it is a knee or shoe buckle?

Probably a knee buckle due to its size. not even the books can agree on this one. There are still somethings we might never know for sure

 

[RELICDUDE07]

Re: Unknown find from 18th Century Homestead

They can be worth money to the right collector..Do some research ,before you sale it.