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Description: | Cast copper alloy double-looped sub-oval shoe buckle frame with a narrowed strap bar. The frame has rounded ends and concave, bifid sides; it has a flat base and a convex profile in cross-section. On similar examples of this buckle type, the bar often has a folded sheet copper-alloy plate with attachment stud to fix the buckle to a shoe, but on this example there is no plate. On either end of the bar, there are three punched circles, and each outer edge of the frame has a row of four recessed circles. The frame is quite corroded but two of these recesses appear to have gilding in them and there is a patch of gilding on the back that has survived. The buckle is 40.7 mm long and 25 mm wide, and 2.5 mm in thickness; the bar is 14.5 mm long and 2.2 mm in thickness. Whitehead (1996) illustrates a similar buckle on page 71, no.442, which is dated from c.1600-1720. Read (1988) illustrates a similar frame with punched circles and fleurets on page 143, no.918, which is dated from c.1600-1650.
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