✅ SOLVED Brass colonial shoe buckle?

[JRMan]

Framingham MA, out again in the old woods and I found another Brass colonial shoe buckle?.. Or it at least looks like one. The brass is in great shape and is interestedly not symmetrical from side to side. Can anyone give me an approx. age/value on this one? It is ornate brass with iron attachment parts which are badly rusted. This one also found on a hill side which seems like a good place to lose these things.

Thank you.

 

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[bigfoot1]

yep,I would agree....shoe buckle....

 

[Silver Searcher]

Nice shoe buckle...1720-1790 ish.....brass, an alloy of copper and zink. has been used in buckle making for hundreds of years, so it's difficult to date such buckles with any accuracy.

In the eighteenth century, when the various parts of buckles were made by different manufacturer's, brass buckles frequently had iron bars, chapes and prongs. The chapes sometimes had spikes, but this is not a indicator of age, as the style continued into the twentieth century.

SS

 

[CRUSADER]

One of the best I have seen complete!

 

[recondigger]

That buckle is outstanding

 

[CoilyGirl]

That's a beauty!