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This is a girth buckle, from a horse harness. It belonged to a saddler and cobbler in Yattendon, Berkshire, who had worked there from 1901 until the early 1960s.

Buckle: metal

MERL 'Handwritten catalogue' form – 'BUCKLE, girth', Letter, Miss F. Palmer to Mr Higgs, 2nd May 1962 - 'Our village Saddler + cobbler Mr Burnham has just died. He had had the shop here since 1901 and his father was also a saddler in Reading...'

1901 - 1962