Buckle
- Object Name:
- Buckle
- Object ID:
- 1995.619.24
- Date:
- circa 1870
- Description:
- Buckle, two-piece. Classical woman (Venus) with pitcher. Black gutta-percha. Draped woman standing in a shell facing forward. Both arms extended upward to hold vase horizontally with fluid coming out of large end. Some ribbons blowing around torso. Water overflowing front edge of shell. Plant materials around shell. Background behind figure, matte. Raised surfaces somewhat polished. Pattern of repeating elongated diamonds and two pellets between diamonds all around edge of buckle front. Slight raised edge at very outside perimeter of buckle. Shiny beveled edge on top, bottom, and left sides. Mat undercut surface to right side. Brass buckle plate riveted to back of gutta-percha. Small, bent-over hook in sheet brass, 0.77" wide. Rounded slot opposite it, 1.67" wide, slightly bent up from plane of back.
Female piece. Body description same as above piece, except that left edge slightly undercut. Wide loop in brass and wide slot in brass, 0.88" wide on back at one side. Opposite, another wide slot, 1.73" wide. - Material:
- Gutta-percha
Brass - Dimensions:
- H-2.36 W-1.69 D-0.33 inches Weight-0.663 oz
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
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