Shoe buckle

Date1770-1790

Mediumrose gold, silver, steel, paste

Dimensions2 7/8" x 1 5/8" OH: 1 1/4"

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Elizabeth Scully Sanders

Object number1972-184,2

DescriptionShoe buckle, one of pair: arched rectangular frames of silver. Face is set with 2 rows of paste brilliants; the outside row of graduated oval cut; the interior row of graduated square cut. One large round cut brilliant at each corner of buckle frame. Two flower design brilliants in middle of both sides of buckle frame. Pinchbeck band on interior edge of buckle frame. Steel chape; U-shaped double prong with heart design between the prongs.
Label TextThese buckles were owned by John Page of Virginia (1744–1808). Page was active in Virginia and national politics. He served as a member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention in 1776, was a member of both the Virginia and the United States House of Representatives, and was governor of Virginia from 1802 to 1805.
ProvenanceTradition of ownership by Governor John Page of Virginia, who married Francis Burwell. Page: born Gloucester County, Virginia, April 17, 1744. Governor of Virginia, 1802-1805. Died 1808. Son of Mann and Alice (Grymes) Page. Family tradition says Pages passed buckles to daughter Alice Grymes Page who married Dudley Digges; passed to their daughter, Elizabeth Francis Digges who married Hugh Nelson Pendleton; to their son, Dudley Digges Pendleton who married Helen McComb Boteler; to their daughter, Rosalie Pendleton, who married Cornelius D. Scully; to their daughter, Mrs. William B. Saunders. The last several generations have lived in Shepardstown, West Virginia.

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