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Pair of Shoe Buckles

Dateca. 1760

OriginEngland

MediumSilver; steel; leaded glass "pastes" or stone

DimensionsOverall: 1 × 2 5/16 × 2 3/4in. (2.5 × 5.9 × 7cm)

Credit LineGift of Lucy B. Young

Object number2019-93,1&2

DescriptionPair of shoe buckles: Two silver and paste man's shoe buckles, each with an arched oval silver frame set with forty graduated and faceted oval glass or paste stones. Each buckle with a steel D-shaped double-toothed chape and a two-prong steel fluke with double central arch, both attached to a central steel cross pin.
Label TextThis pair of shoe buckles have a history of ownership by Nelson Berkley (1733-1794), who built Airwell in Hanover County, Virginia. The shoe buckles descended through the family to the donor, Miss Lucy Burwell Young.
ProvenanceNelson Berkley (1733-1794) and by family descent to donor Miss Lucy Burwell Young