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Gaucho silver belt buckle. Argentina. Early 20th century.

Drag center with six shots of canevon chains and buttons in the form of open flowers, and "culero" or shooter with guayaca -pocket- and cartridge for the revolver. In the center, the initials of its owner, openwork and engraved: "F.S.A." Measures. Dredge. Length: 18cm. Center diameter: 8.5 cm.


According to its design, we go to the categorization carried out by the specialists of the Las Lilas Museum of San Antonio de Areco on the occasion of the great exhibition dedicated to these pieces of the gaucho's clothing, we can classify it as "drag of found markers". In said catalog there is a copy with this motive [1], signed by Manuel Casal, one of the great firms of Creole silverware in the country, located in Buenos Aires. The rasta that we present here, although it responds to this variant, has other peculiarities that allow us to include it in the style of silverware from Corrientes. We refer in particular to the relevant presence of gold that links it more with oriental silverware than with Entre Ríos, and in the characteristics of the shooter, a good characteristic of Creole uses in this coastal province.



Note:

1. The Rastra and the Shooter in the Pampas and Mesopotamia. Las Lilas de Areco Museum, 2014, p. 84.



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