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One half of a cast brass belt buckle, decorated with two Renaissance Revival-style dolphins flanking center, facing one another atop a scrolled foliate V-shaped element. The matching half of the buckle would have had a hook that attached to the loop at base of V-shaped element. Buckle as worn would be horizontal but image oriented vertically.
buckles (strap accessories)
accessories
fasteners
brass (alloy)
casting (process)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
dolphins (animals)
leaf scrolls
Renaissance Revival
Buckle
Buckle, Belt
Brass
Bronzed
Dolphin
Filigree
Scroll
Buckle, Belt
Original to Castle Tucker (Wiscasset, Me.),
Unknown
2 x 2 1/14 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Miss Jane S. Tucker
1998.4833
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