http://snyderstreasures.com/gallery 30 photos in 1 album en-US Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:01:39 -0500 psiberware@starband.net psiberware@starband.net Gallery 1.5.5-pl1, http://gallery.menalto.com/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 40 http://snyderstreasures.com/albums/buckles/BuckleAdamsExpressF.thumb.jpg http://snyderstreasures.com/gallery 144 56 http://snyderstreasures.com/gallery/buckles 5e1126234b0f4f64680916f983c18595 Tue, 2 Dec 2008 09:42:13 -0500 http://snyderstreasures.com/gallery/view_comments.php?set_albumName=buckles http://snyderstreasures.com/albums/buckles/BuckleAdamsExpressF.thumb.jpg http://snyderstreasures.com/albums/buckles/BuckleAdamsExpressF.sized.jpg http://snyderstreasures.com/albums/buckles/BuckleAdamsExpressF.thumb.jpg 56 144 A selection of some of the belt buckles with Old West and other themes made infamous by the J. Duncan Campbell book <u>New Buckles of the Old West</u> in the 1970s. These buckles were made in the late 1960s (the makers unknown) and purported to be "genuine" by a book titled <u>Tiffany & Gaylord Express & Exhibition Belt Plates</u> by "Percy Seibert". Duncan completely exposed the buckles as complete fantasies. While the buckles are not period to any time prior to 1965, they are interesting in their own way. As Campbell says on page XVI of the introduction to his expose, "If you like them, buy them. The final decision is yours alone, but you should be fully aware of what you will get for your money." We have some photocopies of Campbells book available, with "the rest of the story", which shows these and many other variants of these buckles.