17th-18th century AD. A mixed group of eight shoe buckles with articulate chapes and tongues, each with a curved profile,prising: an oval-shaped gold(?) buckle with inner and outer beaded borders and central chevrons, slender tubular pin and tapering tongues; an oval-shaped silver buckle frame set with facetted stones, slender tubular pin, chape with scrolled openwork and two spikes, forked tongue; a rectangular silver buckle frame set with facetted gemstones, ornate chape with raised gemstone-set studs to the scrolled terminals, four tapering tongues; an oval-shaped silver buckle frame set with graduated facetted gemstones, slender decorated plaque above and below, chape with two spikes and tongue with openwork arches; rectangular buckle with inner and outer border of openwork pelletted ovals, u-section band between, slender pin with trapezoidal chape with two spikes and u-shaped tongue with openwork central heart; a rectangular silver buckle decorated with a stylised raised flower to each corner, rectangular panels of raised pellets to each side, lion stamp to reverse, chape with rectangular arm to each end, U-shaped tongue, dated 1679-1697 AD; a rectangular silver buckle frame with round cells holding facetted gemstones, some absent, with slender pin, ornate chape and two arched tongues; a silver rectangular buckle decorated with a series of lozenges between borders of circles, slender pin, rectangular chape with two spikes, arched tongue with two prongs, elliptical plaque between. 360 grams total, 49-87mm wide (2 - 3 1/4"). From the late Alison Barker collection, a retired London barrister; from her collection formed 1960s-1990s. [8]