Complete silver shoe buckle another Hard times token

[foundation hunter]

Went back to that same cellar hole today after the hard rain last night and did it pay off,i found another token,[dan can i get your help] and this beautiful shoe buckle.This buckle sat right underneath a piece of iron the vid was jumping fron iron to half dollar boy am i glad i dug this one. theres iron stuck to the buckle do u think this could be hammered silver?Its def. silver the iron is comming of with my nail and it just has that silver look.Thanks dave i used that CLR almost all the rust is off.
Thanks Gary

[Thiltzy]

Beautiful Buckle very nice save . Gratz on another token

[HEAVYMETALNUT]

beautiful buckle Gary! no it's not applied silver.looks solid to me.the CLR worked pretty good! looks great!

[del]

congrats onthe silver shoe buckle Gary just to let you know the clr will dull or grey the silver some but you can shine it up nice with a jewelers cloth. you should have some silversmith's cartuche on it somewhere that would give you an accurate date i bet its somewhere around 1770's to 1790 , the token is much later around 1840's to 50 a new york merchants token Bowen & Mcnamee . very sweet finds | |

[aloldstuff]

What a great looking buckle. And its silver |. Cool token also.

[Toadman]

Actually smiling here... Awesome buckle ! I have a few of em. and they are the first thing i look at, when I scope out my finds..

[Fire Fighter 43]

Great finds WTG |

[del]

hey Gary did that brass chape and tongue come out of the same hole with that silver frame

because now that i look at it more the brass-alloy chape and tongue look a bit small for that buckle frame ( it doesn't quite reach both sides of the inside frame) and with all the rust that was originally on the frame it probably had all iron chape and tongue . most larger silver or heavy silver plated shoe frames had iron parts for a couple of reasons , for one the iron was shiney and polished and matched the silver colored frames and the iron was stronger than the brass on these large shoe buckles.

Dan

[buck57]

. What a beaut....buckle Gary. great hunt. thumbsup01

[wild willy]

Actually smiling here... Awesome buckle ! I have a few of em. and they are the first thing i look at, when I scope out my finds..

ya the toad has some nice buckles. willy