Don't forget spur buckles which are generally quite small and often plated.
paul courtney
Leicester
UK
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From: "Keith R Doms" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 9:05 PM
Subject: Re: buckles
> Tin plating is also very old. Good examples date asleast as early as
> Anglo-Saxon England. If I recall, not having my buckle book with me, shoe
> buckels are smaller and rounder in the 17th C. and become larger and
> squarer in the 18th C.
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