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Culture:English or American
Title:shoe buckles
Date Made:late 18th century
Type:Adornment
Materials:silver, base metal: copper, brass
Place Made:United Kingdom; England or United States; New England
Accession Number:  HD 82.191/192
Credit Line:Gift of Mr. Leslie Linwood Thomas In Memory of Paul Thomas
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
Pair of shoe buckles in silver on copper and brass (unmarked), which belonged to Elihu Deering Lamphere or Lanphar (1770-1804) who married Abigail Vaughan (b.1774), the daughter of William Vaughan (c.1749-1835) and Katherine Broughton (c.1752-1838) of Portsmouth, NH, in 1797, and lived in Biddeford (Massachusetts until 1820). After Elihu's death, Abigail married William Hollis. One of their sons was Samuel Deering Lanphar (1798-1849) of Biddeford who married Mariam Tarbeaux (or Tarbox) Felker (1800-1892) in 1825. The donor is the great-great grandson of Samuel Deering and Mariam Lanphar

Subjects:
Copper; Brass

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