Man's shoe buckle, one of a pair
OriginEngland
MediumSilver-faced copper; iron/steel fittings
Dimensions2 1/8" x 2 3/4"
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number2003-89,1
DescriptionShoe buckle, one of pair, made of silver facing over copper with iron-steel back pieces. Rectangular pierced guilloche with single flower in each corner superimposed on oval outer frame with chased feather-edge decoration.ProvenanceProbably owned by John Lyle, Essex County, Virginia, a shoemaker whose ledger diary and 1780s discharge papers from the British army survived with the buckles. Diary and discharge papers are in the CWF John D. Rockefeller Library.
1765-1775
1770s
 with her mother, Elizabeth Clifford Morris Canby (Mrs. Samuel Canby)(1813-1892)](/internal/media/dispatcher/171841/thumbnail)
1855-1857 (probably)
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Ellwood Garrett (1813-?)
1851-1853 (probably)
1765-1775
1765-1775
