Ole Brass Shoe Buckle Frame

[steelheadwill]

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone !!
I Hit the shore for the new moon low tides,
after an hour of learning the history of fishing sinkers, & digging some toasty coins,
I got a loud signal, depth meter maxed out,
figured I'd be pulling out a piece of copper sheathing...
about 16" down in the sand was a nice heavy cast buckle
looking to be 1650-1720 style.
edges of the pin terminals show significant wear,
I think this piece adorned several shoes before being lost.
This heavy casting is in high contrast to one I dug last week,
which was large, but a thin and delicate design.
Good enough for me! packed it in & headed home, was 40 degrees, rain & wind...
This seems to be my pattern lately, hunt an hour or two,
score a goodie, and time to go
Best to you all! Thanks for looking & HH!

 

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[ANTIQUARIAN]

That's one beautiful shoe buckle Herbie!
Hunting in the driving wind and rain . . . you certainly earned that find!

Have a great long weekend buddy,
Dave

 

[ModernMiner]

Herbie,
You are by far one of the most dedicated detectorists on Tnet.
Nice old buckle Dude.
Way to go,
Dug

 

[worldtalker]

Herbie, NICE buckle dude!!!!!!!STILL waiting for the river water to go down,it's been high all year.`God Bless HH Chris

 

[mainer]

Good looking buckle Herbie.

 

[gmanlight]

No doubt , you put in the time for all those nice finds
and it shows.

 

[Hans R Dirty]

Man that salt water is hard on the relics. Nice buckle....cheers!

 

[JW15]

Sweet shoe buckle Herbie!!! Congrats!

 

[VOL1266-X]

Very nice OLD buckle Herbie but Where's The Spoon HH, Quindy.

 

[HISPAN]

The 18th century buckle is nice and wear makes it even more beautiful.

 

[Rick (Nova Scotia)]

Nice find !

16 inches down, can you now vouch for the fact E-track will find stuff deeper than air tests ? (using the exact same item) I would like to know.

 

[steelheadwill]

Nice find !

16 inches down, can you now vouch for the fact E-track will find stuff deeper than air tests ? (using the exact same item) I would like to know.

thanks everyone!!
Q, I got the spoon style sinker anyway
Rick, today I will do some testing with the buckle & Etrac, I know 16" sounds very deep, Believe this buckle was resting on the shell/gravel
base under the layer of mud, (some visible in last pic) I was pretty close to two shovel heights down before I got it. (of course it could have been sliding off the shovel, but an item this old would have sank down to the solid base )
I just air tested my etrac and stock coil a few days back.
(if you can call a coin resting on the ground an 'air test')
I was very disappointed with the results, though I love the etracs performance in real world conditions.
will post test results later today, HH all

 

[Rick (Nova Scotia)]

Thanks Herbie,

I am super interested as I don't have a "test" garden. and 16 inch deep finds are , well scarce. I frankly was not too impressed with E-track's air testing ability, so yes I am looking forward to seeing what you have to say.

I have always believed that a detector can find stuff deeper in packed damp soil than in an air test, and I will believe what you say, I know who to believe, and who not too. (there are many in the later category)

Basicly the deepest coins I have come across were in the 11 to 12 inch range. About the depth of the snow today. I hope it melts before Christmas, I want one more copper. Been so busy didn't even look at the forum for a few days.

Thanks,

Rick PS Hope I didn't mess that up.

 

[steelheadwill]

Thanks Herbie,

I am super interested as I don't have a "test" garden. and 16 inch deep finds are , well scarce. I frankly was not too impressed with E-track's air testing ability, so yes I am looking forward to seeing what you have to say.

I have always believed that a detector can find stuff deeper in packed damp soil than in an air test, and I will believe what you say, I know who to believe, and who not too. (there are many in the later category)

Basicly the deepest coins I have come across were in the 11 to 12 inch range. About the depth of the snow today. I hope it melts before Christmas, I want one more copper. Been so busy didn't even look at the forum for a few days.

Thanks,

Rick PS Hope I didn't mess that up.

Foot of Snow
Thought I had it bad with 4" down here.. (and it's not melting )
and the fact that these great low tides are happening in the dark.. -1.5 !!
my 'air test' the other day would only lock onto a clad quarter at 6-7"
I have dug items from the mud at over twice that depth.
gotta also take into account the etracs autosense levels...
the kind of terrain where the buckle was dug usually has it almost maxing out (at +3)
the test in my dirt driveway was probably only half./
We'll see when it gets light & a little warmer out.
BTW, decembers new moon lows are gonna take place earlier in the day, hope it's above 20 degrees

 

[Rick (Nova Scotia)]

You should sleep at night.

Me, got computer problems, does that excuse work ? I'll be a linux man soon.

 

[MKnTenn]

Nice finds in hard core hunting, HH

 

[romeo-1]

That's a nice buckle. We've got about a foot here as well but it looks like it will be gone within a couple days...warm forecast. I'm hoping to be able to detect some fields tomorrow because the tides are off for detecting the beaches this weekend.

 

[steelheadwill]

That's a nice buckle. We've got about a foot here as well but it looks like it will be gone within a couple days...warm forecast. I'm hoping to be able to detect some fields tomorrow because the tides are off for detecting the beaches this weekend.

Thanks MK and Romeo,
Hoping we get the melt too, Great tides here but cold after dark hunting....
next month maybe!! HH All

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Great finds my friend...The buckle is killer

 

[Damon64]

Great buckle!