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Pair of Shoe Buckles

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Collection Type

  • Clothing and accessories

Date

1900-1925

GUSN

GUSN-100648

Description

Pair of matching oval shoe buckles, single row of colorless pastes set in brass; hinged double prong; run on pieces of black silk velvet ribbon.

Details

Descriptive Terms

fasteners
brass (alloy)
BUCKLE, SHOE

Associated Building

Original to Codman House (Lincoln, Mass.),

Additional Identification Number

91

Maker

Unknown

Location of Origin

?

Dimensions

1 1/8 in (1); 1 1/8 in (2) x 1 3/8 in (1); 1 3/8 in (2) (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Bequest of Dorothy S.F.M. Codman

Accession Number

1969.3022.1-2

Reference Notes

For more information on the Codman estate see the entire issue of "Old Time New England" 71, no. 258 (1981).

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