Found a colonial shoe buckle... at a flea market!

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No time to detect this past weekend due to a family reunion, but I did stop at a roadside flea market on the way back and was very surprised to fine one of these in a box of random trinkets:

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It's a huge Georgian shoe buckle, but of a plain variety so I doubt it's worth much. Still, unlike my dug examples, it's nice to have an iron chape that's fully intact to show people what they looked like whole. I can't imagine how long this has been knocking around boxes of random bits until it was finally spotted by me.
 

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That's why I like flea markets. Hope you got a good deal.
 

That's why I like flea markets. Hope you got a good deal.

It was actually a very reasonable $10. Lately I've been going to more flea markets looking for just this sort of thing; non-dug pieces to go with the dug examples. Makes for a great display!
 

It was actually a very reasonable $10. Lately I've been going to more flea markets looking for just this sort of thing; non-dug pieces to go with the dug examples. Makes for a great display!

$10.00 Federal Reserve Notes for a genuine piece of history is a flipping BARGAIN!:headbang: Great score and idea to collect some intact treasures to go with the ones that may not be so nice when dug. Brilliant!:icon_thumright:
 

nicely done, it's a great piece.
 

Dangggg...look at the SIZE of that thing! It could double as a hay-bailer in the fall possibly.
 

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