Colonial silver buckle hallmark

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Found this buckle today with a mark I cannot identify. Anyone have any info/guesses? Thanks in advance!
 

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I can't help id it, but I can say... SWEET FIND BRO!

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I've searched a bunch and came up with a few. If it's WC,

William Cowell - 1682 to 1736

William Cleveland - 1737 to 1770

William Clark - 1750 to 1798

If it's VVC It could be Van Voorhis & Cooly 1798

These are American Silver Smiths, Attached are photo's of a book you should look at and print for your library.
 

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I've searched a bunch and came up with a few. If it's WC,

William Cowell - 1682 to 1736

William Cleveland - 1737 to 1770

William Clark - 1750 to 1798

If it's VVC It could be Van Voorhis & Cooly 1798

These are American Silver Smiths, Attached are photo's of a book you should look at and print for your library.

Thats way cool! I'd say colonial period

Love to see a pic of the front cleaned up awesome find

Spectacular buckle! Huge congrats.

Thank you all! Now I have a small list of possibilities, I can steer my research in those directions. Here's a few more pics cleaned up, I do not plan on cleaning it any further. It will go in a small display like my first silver buckle. Will update this post when its finished!
 

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I will contribute my own belated congratulations to this thread. A colonial silver buckle is an excellent historical recovery; way to go, Jeff! :clapping:

Have you been able to identify the maker more specifically? Do you think the piece is more likely to have been from a shoe or a belt (or some other item)?
 
How did I miss this post ?To me it looks more like VVC than WC. What a beautiful buckle and awesome save. Big time congrats Jeff.
 
I'll take a wild guess and say that it looks like an early shoe buckle. It looks like there was a bar in the center that went from the top to bottom for the shoe strap so that it the buckle was tight to the shoe. Nice save, go find the other silver one. That family had some money.
 
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