strange shoe buckle find

[Silvermonkey]

Greetings fellow diggers!

Came across a shoe buckle today. Looked pretty normal coming out of the ground. However, when I got it home, I realized that there appears to be a fairly detailed veneer covering a portion of the top. Some of this veneer has turned to dust..the rest is in the process of pulling away from the buckle itself. I have found about a half dozen shoe buckles over the years and have never seen this before. Has anyone else? Any opinions are welcome. HH.

 

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[pepperj]

Nice recovery on the buckle, not sure on whats going on with it since you cleaned it up.

 

[trapperart]

Congrats on the interesting buckle

 

[RVRoamer74]

Awesome Buckle find. Congrats!!

 

[against the wind]

Congrats on your find.

 

[collector01]

is it a iron buckle? and was plated with copper/brass?

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Beautiful buckle recovery!

 

[Subterranean]

Beautiful buckle! Do you think it had a shell or thin wood inlay? Sub

 

[scruggs]

Congratulations on your nice buckle find.

 

[gwdigger]

Nice find.

 

[huntsman53]

Nice find! It looks like Brass with an intricate overlay design made of Pewter or similar metal that was lead soldered on.


Frank

 

[Kurios1]

Nice old relic you found. No idea how it's constructed but, it's cool.

 

[CRUSADER]

If its a silver plating, then yes.

 

[Silvermonkey]

Thanks all for the comments. The base material appears to be brass, and gave off a solid "85" VDI in the ground. A piece of the overlay only rang up in the mid "30"'s. Lots of detail now that I' ve had a chance to clean it up some. I seem to have good luck finding shoe buckles, and they continue to be one of my favorite things to pull out of the ground. Thanks for taking a look.