3 Western Rodeo Buckles
Updated September 5, 2026
| Lot number | 148 |
| Auction | Hancock Estate Auction |
| Date | September 25, 2026 at 9:30 AM CDT |
| Auction house | Harrison Auction & Realtor |
| Location | Gracemont, Oklahoma |
25-Character Title 3 Western Rodeo Buckles (23) Alternates: Irvine Jachens Buckle Lot (25) Roping & Bronc Buckles (22) 3 Rodeo Belt Buckles (20) HiBid Description LOT OF THREE VINTAGE WESTERN GERMAN SILVER BELT BUCKLES - CALF ROPING TROPHY, BRONC RIDER, AND JOCKEY ON RACE HORSE, TWO MARKED IRVINE & JACHENS Three vintage western belt buckles in German silver with applied copper and brass figural overlays, two of them stamped by Irvine & Jachens of San Francisco. The largest is a rodeo trophy-style buckle in a scalloped rectangular form with a hand-engraved leaf and fern field, a twisted rope edge, and a copper calf-roping scene of a mounted roper with his loop out on a running calf, framed by a plain copper ribbon at the top and a blank copper banner at the bottom that were never engraved with a name or event. The second is a small oval with a brass bucking horse and rider over a finely engraved ranch scene of a corral fence, barn, windmill, hills, and sagebrush. The third is a larger oval with a brass jockey on a running race horse against an engraved field with floral side panels, a twisted brass rope edge, and two blank brass ribbon banners top and bottom. All three have intact back bars and hooks and are wearable, and the group displays well together in a shadow box, western room, or tack room. Sold as a lot of three pieces. Description Piece one: scalloped rectangular calf-roping trophy buckle, engraved leaf and fern ground, twisted rope border, copper roper on horse and copper calf with the rope in relief, blank copper ribbon and banner panels for engraving. Reverse marked in block letters IRVINE & / COMSTOCK SILVER / JACHENS INC - approximately 3-1/4" to 3-1/2" wide per the tape-measure photograph Piece two: small oval bronc-rider buckle, brass bucking horse and rider over an engraved ranch landscape with corral fence, barn, windmill, and hills, beaded rim line. Reverse marked IRVINE & / GERMAN SILVER / JACHENS INC - approximately 2-1/2" to 2-3/4" wide and roughly 2" tall per the tape photograph Piece three: oval jockey and race horse buckle, brass overlay figure, engraved floral side panels, twisted brass rope edge, two blank brass ribbon banners, brass back bar and hook. Reverse marked only GERMAN SILVER with no maker's name present - approximately 3-1/4" to 3-3/4" wide and roughly 2-1/2" to 2-3/4" tall Construction on all three: stamped and hand-engraved German silver bodies with soldered applied overlay figures and soldered back bars and hooks German silver, also called nickel silver, is a copper, nickel, and zinc alloy and contains no actual silver content Bidders should verify all dimensions and the back-bar strap width from the photographs Attribution note J.C. Irvine opened an engraving and badge shop in San Francisco in 1886, rebuilt after the 1906 earthquake and fire, and the firm became Irvine & Jachens in 1926, working at 1068 Mission Street until about 1950 before moving to Daly City, where the badge business stil
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