3 Rodeo Trophy Buckles
Updated September 5, 2026
| Lot number | 149 |
| Auction | Hancock Estate Auction |
| Date | September 25, 2026 at 9:30 AM CDT |
| Auction house | Harrison Auction & Realtor |
| Location | Gracemont, Oklahoma |
LOT OF THREE VINTAGE WESTERN BELT BUCKLES - TWO SIGNED COMSTOCK GERMAN SILVER AND ONE ROCKMOUNT OF DENVER EARLHAM QUARTER SHOW TROPHY BUCKLE Three vintage western belt buckles with applied copper and brass figural overlays, two of them signed by Comstock Silversmiths and one an actual awarded show trophy buckle marked Rockmount of Denver, Colorado. The first is a small bright oval with a copper bronc rider on a bucking horse over an engraved mountain and sagebrush landscape with clouds and a plain arched panel above. The second is a large heavy oval with a brass mounted roper working a brass calf across an engraved scene of corral panels, mountains, brush, and starburst rosettes. The third is a scalloped rectangular trophy buckle with a hand-engraved scroll field, four applied brass rosettes at the corners, a brass roper and calf, and a brass ribbon banner engraved EARLHAM QUARTER SHOW, making it a genuine horse-show award rather than a blank stock buckle. All three have intact back bars and hooks and are wearable, and together they make a strong grouping for a western room, shadow box, or a rodeo and horse-show buckle collection. Sold as a lot of three pieces. Description Piece one: small oval bronc-rider buckle, copper bucking horse and rider in relief, engraved mountains, clouds, grass, and beaded rim line, blank arched banner area at the top, brightest and most polished of the three. Reverse marked COMSTOCK / GERMAN SILVER / SILVERSMITHS - approximately 2-1/2" to 2-3/4" wide and roughly 2" tall per the tape-measure photograph Piece two: large oval calf-roping buckle, brass mounted roper and brass calf, engraved corral panels, mountains, brush, and starburst motifs, beaded rim line. Reverse marked COMSTOCK / GERMAN SILVER / SILVERSMITHS - approximately 3-1/2" to 4" wide and roughly 2-1/2" tall per the tape photograph; an old seller's listing shown in one photo described this same buckle as 2-1/2 inches by 4 inches and 81 grams Piece three: scalloped rectangular trophy buckle, engraved scroll and swirl field, four applied brass rosettes, brass roper and calf, brass banner engraved EARLHAM QUARTER SHOW, brass back bar. Reverse marked ROCKMOUNT / DENVER, COLO. / NICKEL SILVER, with additional faint stamped or engraved lettering on the reverse that is worn and not legible in the photographs - approximately 3" to 3-1/4" wide and roughly 2-1/4" tall per the tape photograph Construction on all three: stamped and hand-engraved nickel silver bodies with soldered applied overlay figures and soldered back bars and hooks German silver and nickel silver are the same material, a copper, nickel, and zinc alloy that contains no actual silver content Bidders should verify all dimensions and the back-bar strap width from the photographs Attribution note Comstock Silversmiths traces to an 1886 San Francisco silver shop that produced badges and, later, parade saddle silver and western buckles. Christian Stegman bought the firm in the 1920s, and his son
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