Ross Whitehead's book: "Buckles: 1250 - 1800" (2016) is Helpful

[Eastender]

I have a bag of Georgian shoe buckle frames, chapes, and tines (forks) that I have found detecting. Some basic in design, others quite ornate. I jokingly refer to broken shoe buckles as colonial flat tires. I find this book informative. Here I show two of my Georgian buckles matched to pages. Not exact matches. And they don't even post a real example of the shoe buckle. The book was printed in Great Britain, where many of if not all of these buckles were most likely manufactured. I also have some smaller basic square shoe buckles in the 1660's - 1720 range. That takes them back to the original settlers, which I find exciting. I have only one clog hasp, however. I do have a collection of various buckles from this period, some of them bigger horse tack.

The age range given for these buckles matches the few coins that I found at this site. The book gives a range of 1720-1790s. Thus far I have turned up British coins dated: 1722, 1723, 1741, and 1760. The buttons I have found in this mix help me to date buttons from other sites without associated coins to date them.

Anybody know of a book specific for 1700s Georgian shoe buckles?

 

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[Eastender]

This is an American-made (New Hampshire) non-dug 1700s shoe buckle that was gifted to me. Probably quite rare, I like its primitive but beautiful qualities. Also gives an idea of what copper alloy artifacts look like without the corrosion from being buried for many years.

It's interesting how Georgian shoe buckles flourished over the 1700's , becoming progressively larger and more ornate. Then by 1800, such shoe buckles fell completely out of fashion.