Just a buckle or colonial buckle ?

[Mike in Berks]

I need some help from the buckle experts. I had this in a group of buckles i dug
The ones that didn't make the displays. With all the buckles being posting in "Best
Finds" this one has me curious now ? ?

 

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[Don in SJ]

I have found two stock buckles, one a stock clasp type and the other a typcial buckle, but both seem to be much more decorative than the average shoe buckle, non silvered that is. It might be possible it could be a stock buckle, but I somehow think they did tend to be more decorative than a knee or shoe buckle.

Mike, I liked the photos of the woman and child wearing buckled items. Hard to tell sizes, but perhaps some buckles thought to be knee buckles could in fact be a child's shoe buckle, unless the shaft location I noted on my examples is rather standard, that a shoe buckle would have it running across the width and not the length. (Hmmm, a square one would be a toss up! )

Don

 

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[Mike in Berks]

I have found two stock buckles, one a stock clasp type and the other a typcial buckle, but both seem to be much more decorative than the average shoe buckle, non silvered that is. It might be possible it could be a stock buckle, but I somehow think they did tend to be more decorative than a knee or shoe buckle.

Mike, I liked the photos of the woman and child wearing buckled items. Hard to tell sizes, but perhaps some buckles thought to be knee buckles could in fact be a child's shoe buckle, unless the shaft location I noted on my examples is rather standard, that a shoe buckle would have it running across the width and not the length. (Hmmm, a square one would be a toss up! )

Don

Don, those are 2 awesome finds
And thanks to SS and you i learned about stock buckles too
I only saw your post a 1/2 hr. ago so i had to do a google on stock buckles lol
I found this web site and your 1st photo looks very similar to the military one.
And your 2nd photo is very similar to the other varietys shown. You might have
seen these already, but i'll post it anyway ....... just scroll to the bottom.
http://www.wmboothdraper.com/Buckles/buckles_main.htm#stock

Thanks Much Don !! Mike