🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Shoe buckle?

[demano]

Made it out to east coast with my metal detector. At a relatives house in Pennslvania woods found this, is this a shoe buckle? I chipped off a little on the corner and it is flat and has some fancy engraving, seems to lightweight to be anything horse related. How would you go about cleaning. Sorry for rambling, just excited I would not get the opportunity to find something like this in Wisconsin. Thanks

 

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[Almy]

Has the shape of a shoe buckle all right, curved with an enlargement in the middle where a pin would go. But it seems big for a shoe.

 

[ColtsPop]

It may be a little large for a shoe, and therefore a knee buckle

 

[Bamasteve]

Nice find

 

[grasshopper]

It may be a little large for a shoe, and therefore a knee buckle

Knee buckles are smaller than shoe buckles.

 

[demano]

Thank you for the info, in the process of cleaning now, it does have some type of fancy ingraving around the perimeter, hope I can save it.

 

[demano]

Here it is after several hours in the ultrasonic cleaner and some careful scrapping. Have I found my first shoe buckle? Appears to have pin bosses as shown in pic with the pen. Lot of ornate ingraving around it. I feel so lucky to have found this and really love this hobby. Wish I could detect on the east coast all the time. Thanks and Happy digging.

 

[Almy]

Cleaning helped it appear more like a shoe buckle. Congratulations!

 

[demano]

Cleaning helped it appear more like a shoe buckle. Congratulations!

Thanks, my first.

 

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