Patrick Henry Silver Shoe Buckles

Patrick Henry Silver Shoe Buckles

A pair of silver shoe buckets worn by Patrick Henry and made by Benjamim Bickerton, London. The shoe buckles are silver hallmarked “London, 1762, BB (Benjamin Bickerton)”. They were likely left at the Hanover Tavern by Patrick Henry when he worked there, with his father, who owned the tavern.

Provenance: This beautiful pair of 18th century silver shoe buckles were collected from the Hanover Tavern, in Hanover, Virginia by Talmadge Selph, Caroline County, Virginia. Talmadge obtained this pair of shoe buckles in 1954, from one of the new owners as partial payment for lumber ordered to renovate the tavern. At Christmas, 1964, Waynetah and Talmadge Selph gave this pair of Patrick Henry silver shoe buckles and Christmas Card to his close young friend, Gordon Barlow, for taking him duck hunting at Thanksgiving and as a gift for passing his Virginia State Board of Pharmacy licensure exam to become a pharmacist after graduating from the University of Pittsburgh, School of Pharmacy that year.