Handmade Solid Brass Belt Buckles
Who sells them (and who used to)
For a few years David and Barbara made belts to go with their buckles, but it was never their forte, and we have always sold them primarily through leatherworkers and leather shops or let people find their own belts for our buckles. Here are the few current leatherworkers still selling belts with our buckles, and a decidedly incomplete list of some of the past major sellers, in case their old customers may be searching for more information about the buckles.
Where to find our buckles now
- North & East Leather, Berkeley, CA :: NorthAndEastLeather.com
- Richard Davis: Adirondack Designs, Santa Rosa, CA :: Adirondack-Designs.com
- Asheville Sandalmakers, Asheville, NC (formerly Paul Taylor Sandals) :: PaulTaylorSandals.com
- Max Whitley: Easy Street Leather, Pink Hill, NC :: LeatherAndPottery.com
- Robert Zarcone: Studio Z Leather, Moodus, CT :: StudioZLeather.com
- Magnolia Fine Gifts & Gallery, Aptos, CA :: (sells our buckles but not belts) facebook.com/Magnoliafinegifts
- ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA :: occasionally we sell buckles through our local co-op gallery :: ACCIgallery.com
- from us: [email protected] or via our Etsy shop.
Where you might once have found our buckles
- From us directly. We have done the American Craft Council shows, and in the '70s and '80s showed buckles there and at many other craft fairs around Northern California, and a few in other parts of the country, including Harpers Ferry, WV, which was the first fair David and Barbara (and Reed as a baby) attended. Custom boat buckles were advertised in sailing magazines as well for a time, and we made hundreds of them for people around the country.
- Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley. "The Street," as it's known, has always had a colorful community of vendors. In the '70s and '80s, it was almost all craftworkers, and many leatherworkers were there regularly. Several bought our buckles over the years to sell on their belts, and some continued to do so when their businesses moved up or away off the Street. These included Dave Brown, Mishka ____, Tom Kahan, Terry Torbone, Jim Stinnett, Ron ____, Gary Robinson, Bill Hughson, Wes Garcia, David Lippenberger, and Claudia Levin. Claudia lasted the longest, but hasn't been selling on the Street for a few years now.
- Other leatherworkers around the country who were regular buckle customers and retailers included James Rogers and David Carty in Oakland, Jan Etre in Berkeley, Rex Clements of Rio Nido, CA, Ron Swanberg of Hillsboro, WV, and Richard Yates in Venice, CA and then in Canada
- Shops which sold David's buckles included Foxfire in San Francisco, CA; Ward and Eis in Petoskey, MI; Ancient Foot in Palo Alto, CA; and Brother Gambit in East Lansing, MI (no longer doing leatherwork, remained in business and selling our larger work as Mackerel Sky until 2019), and many others.
Current buckle designs :: About older buckles :: Wholesale info for leatherworkers :: Contact us
From time to time we make buckles (including some older styles) available through our Etsy shop.
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