Category: BUCKLES

This is a beautifully designed buckle.  The shape is very effective being a blunt ended diamond.  There is a variety of size in the Diamentes which are claw set.  It is so sparkly and does not show to real advantage.

How about some buckles for a change again.  I do like them and like buttons they can be little works of art too.

Here are three Paste ( or small facetted pieces of glass set in metal )  buckles.  How they would glimmer in the light of an evening event on a ball gown or the like especially on a plain  rich fabric.

I believe this Art Nouveau buckle may have been a Nurse’s buckle from the early 1900’s in England.  I have seen similar ones on Antiques Roadshow on T.V.

It is E.P.N.S. and backmarked E.G. Stott.  The flowers appear to me to be fuschias.  What a beautiful design.  It is a large buckle being 9 cm. X 5  1/2 cm.  I have had it many years, long before I started collecting buttons.

Art Deco is the period of these two buckles.  One is black glass with a silver lustre and the other  is pink glass set in white metal.  Aren’t they lovely.

I love buckles also and here we see a little group of black and white and orange plastic buckles.  The brown ones have carved designs on them which I find interesting.  The last group are Celluloid buckles from the 1930’s.

Buckles are another interest of mine and I have a few really nice old ones and quite a few of the more common old plastic  ones.  I love thee look of these carved plastic buckles (or clasps).  The colours are typical of the period (not so bright as today’s colours)   I guess they come from the 1940’s and 50’s.