Pair of shoe buckles | Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 1785

Medium: Silver, steel or iron
Dimensions: 1 7/8 × 2 5/16 in. (4.76 × 5.87 cm)
other: 2 5/16 in. (5.9 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1930.1333a-b
Geography: Made in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Culture: American
Period: 18th century
Classification: Jewelry
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Provenance

Francis P. Garvan (1875-1937), New York; gift 1930 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Kathryn C. Buhler and Graham Hood, American Silver in the Yale University Art Gallery, 2 vols. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1970), vol. 2, p. 200, no. 865

Object copyright

Additional information

Marks

"LH" [Roman] in rectangle on reverse of frame (1930.1333a with a complete stamp of the mark, 1930.1333b with a partial stamp of the mark).

1930.1333a scratched "XXXII" on reverse of frame.\r\n\r\n1930.1333b scratched "XXXII I" on reverse of frame.

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