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Apr 26, 2025
ENGLISH GEORGIAN / VICTORIAN BABY RATTLE AND SHOE BUCKLES, LOT OF THREE, comprising a Victorian silver or silver-plated baby rattle / whistle with bells and coral, featuring repousse and chased scroll and floral designs; and an assembled pair of George III adult-sized shoe buckles with each having rectangular design featuring silvered and faceted tops, butterfly-form motifs to center of sides, and steel/iron chape and tongue, one made of brass and the other appears to be copper/copper alloy. Each unmarked, rattle may have worn mark to side below whistle. Late 18th and 19th century. Rattle 6 1/4" LOA.
Literature: Buckles parallel The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Collection, object no. 2023-259, A & B.
Rattle in good to very good visual condition with some wear, surface scratches, nicks, dents, and other imperfections, a possible repair around middle of silver between the bell rows, coral reattached with glue; brass buckle in very good overall condition with some wear including to silvering, chape and tongue with light rusting and pitting; copper buckle in fair to good overall condition with wear, losses to silvering, one butterfly-form motif with a break and small loss, chape and tongue with light rusting and pitting, tongue also with losses at spike tips and possible repair.
From the collection of Barbara and Bruce McRitchie, Williamsburg, VA.
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