Firemans buckle

[CrazySlasher]

Fireman's buckle

Found this at a new site today. Was wondering if anyone could maybe date it.

 

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[shaun7]

Re: Fireman's buckle

Nice buckle

Maybe from the year 5

 

[BIG61AL]

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A hand pulled cart with a large five on the side. Reminds me of a pre-moterised fire truck. Aging could put it in that era.

 

[kyphote]

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Truly great buckle, congrats. I can see a market for that one.

 

[JRich98150]

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Ladder Company 5

JRich

 

[gtfd47]

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That is an awesome find...the Buckle is of a hand tub...They were ususally horse drawn and were as stated manual firepumps, usually drawing water from ponds or cisterns...Generally speaking, they were named and assigned a number...that would have been worn as part of the uniform specific to that tub...google search Fire Hand tubs local to your area, or swing by the FD in the area found...For example, some of the Tubs from my Department way back when in the 1800s were the Erie 4, & Washington 3....Sweet, and definatley a huge market for that piece

 

[dg39]

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Fantastic. What is the story on it?
Banner find!
DG

 

[CrazySlasher]

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That is an awesome find...the Buckle is of a hand tub...They were ususally horse drawn and were as stated manual firepumps, usually drawing water from ponds or cisterns...Generally speaking, they were named and assigned a number...that would have been worn as part of the uniform specific to that tub...google search Fire Hand tubs local to your area, or swing by the FD in the area found...For example, some of the Tubs from my Department way back when in the 1800s were the Erie 4, & Washington 3....Sweet, and definatley a huge market for that piece

Thanks for the info. I will check with the town and see what they can tell me. I didn't know if the 5 meant station #5 or was the designated number of the hand tub. But a small town like this would not likely have had 5 stations at any point.

@dg39

I went out metal detecting Saturday with my partner and a new guy from RI. We hit a spot that turned out to be a dud except for an Inidan I found. Decided to just drive around and eyeball a spot and found 4 fields down the street that we're pretty sure are town owned. Pulled out a large cent (no date def pre-1808 though) and my buddy pulled an old button. Then I found the buckle. When it first popped out of the whole I nearly wet myself because I thought it was something else. I'm still pretty excited about it as I've found close to a hundred buckles this years. And aside from the colonial stuff, they've all been junk. We left a short while after because of the blazing heat. We plan on going back again this week when it's not so rainy. The town it was found is here on the south shore of MA.

Dave

 

[creskol]

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That is an awesome find...the Buckle is of a hand tub...They were ususally horse drawn and were as stated manual firepumps, usually drawing water from ponds or cisterns...Generally speaking, they were named and assigned a number...that would have been worn as part of the uniform specific to that tub...google search Fire Hand tubs local to your area, or swing by the FD in the area found...For example, some of the Tubs from my Department way back when in the 1800s were the Erie 4, & Washington 3....Sweet, and definatley a huge market for that piece

Thanks for the info. I will check with the town and see what they can tell me. I didn't know if the 5 meant station #5 or was the designated number of the hand tub. But a small town like this would not likely have had 5 stations at any point.

@dg39

I went out metal detecting Saturday with my partner and a new guy from RI. We hit a spot that turned out to be a dud except for an Inidan I found. Decided to just drive around and eyeball a spot and found 4 fields down the street that we're pretty sure are town owned. Pulled out a large cent (no date def pre-1808 though) and my buddy pulled an old button. Then I found the buckle. When it first popped out of the whole I nearly wet myself because I thought it was something else. I'm still pretty excited about it as I've found close to a hundred buckles this years. And aside from the colonial stuff, they've all been junk. We left a short while after because of the blazing heat. We plan on going back again this week when it's not so rainy. The town it was found is here on the south shore of MA.

Dave

Trade you for the cool buckle I found several days ago!

 

[Monty]

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Creskol, that buckle was made for Bobby "Short Stroke" Anderson who never had any luck with the ladies. He however died a bachelor in 1987 with nothing but a one bedroom shotgun house, a dog and a blow up doll named Bobbi Too. He was buried just outside Roanoke in an unmarked grave. A true American tragedy. M nty

 

[creskol]

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Creskol, that buckle was made for Bobby "Short Stroke" Anderson who never had any luck with the ladies. He however died a bachelor in 1987 with nothing but a one bedroom shotgun house, a dog and a blow up doll named Bobbi Too. He was buried just outside Roanoke in an unmarked grave. A true American tragedy. M nty

Ya see there ... a buckle with a sound provenance .. can't go wrong with that trade!

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

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That is an awesome find...the Buckle is of a hand tub...They were ususally horse drawn and were as stated manual firepumps, usually drawing water from ponds or cisterns...Generally speaking, they were named and assigned a number...that would have been worn as part of the uniform specific to that tub...google search Fire Hand tubs local to your area, or swing by the FD in the area found...For example, some of the Tubs from my Department way back when in the 1800s were the Erie 4, & Washington 3....Sweet, and definatley a huge market for that piece

Is this a banner find? Post the story in Todays Finds. Do some research. In what city did you find this?



Early fire apparatus included this cataract hand tub. The hand tub was purchased in 1855. Water would be drawn up the hard sleeve suction seen here from a pond or a cistern. It took an incredible amount of work to get this apparatus to a fire and to provide the force needed to push water through the primitive hoses that were towed to fires by teams of men as seen above.

 

[CrazySlasher]

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Dighton, MA. I was going to post this in todays find but I don't get many replies there usually :tongue3 I'll post it over there though.

 

[gtfd47]

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Dave...from what I can find, dighton might not have had a tub...closest I came up with was the Hancock #5 tub out of Taunton, right next door - "Hancock #5 Hunneman 1845 #264 Texas 6"
delivered to Taunton, MA. became property of SPNEA, auctioned 11/10/89 to a man in Texas"...Info can be seen @ www.handtubs.com, in the manufacturer link...lists them all...drop me a PM and let me know how you make out...
Brian

 

[gtfd47]

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Dave...
Possibly "Hancock 5" out of Taunton

"Hancock #5 Hunneman 1845 #264 Texas 6"
delivered to Taunton, MA. became property of SPNEA, auctioned 11/10/89 to a man in Texas"

as found on www.handtubs.com

Drop me a PM...let me know how you make out

Brian

 

[CrazySlasher]

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Great research Brian! I don't give away my spot, but I was very, very close to Taunton, so it makes sense.

 

[kyphote]

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I'm going to go ahead and pull the banner trigger on this one. Can't get it out of my mind. Congratulations again!

 

[Swingit]

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Thats an awesome find

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

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Great researcg gtfd47. This is a highly unusual and interesting find.

 

[trikikiwi]

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Awesome find, regardless of its provenance, it's a real treasure. I have put my nomination in

Mike