• Title
  Shoe buckles from the Cook family
• Call number
  SAFE/R 205
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1791
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Objects
• Reference code
  421679
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Objects - 2 shoe buckles, edged in silver with floral decoration, covered-in with black leather - 8 x 9 cm.
  
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Variant title
  
  Previously titled: Shoe buckles used by Captain Cook for ordinary wear
• General note
  
  These items have been digitised as part of the Nelson Meers Foundation Benefaction, 2002
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1055166
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Hallmarks:
  Sterling lion
  Monarch's head duty mark: George III (1786-1821)
  Date hallmark "q" - 1791:
  
  "207" above clasp
  "Eley's patent 20207" on the spring mechanism
  "WE" - maker's mark in oval with scalloped edges
  "L" [left] and "R" [right] on the buckles
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Shoe buckles previously thought to belong to Captain James Cook reassessed from silver hallmarks, July 2013
  Hallmarks show these are not Cook's shoe buckles
  William Eley (I) maker's mark in oval with scalloped edges used from 1790
• Subject
  Cook, James, 1728-1779.
  Cook, James, 1728-1779--Relics.
  
• Topic
  buckles
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection - State Library of New South Wales (January - June 2003)
  Learning Services Program display 2014-2015 - State Library of New South Wales (January 2014 - January 2015)

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