This lady’s dress belt buckle was designed by goldsmith Philip Syng, Jr., who emigrated from Cork around 1714 when his father brought the family to Philadelphia. Syng’s superb design features tiny scallop shells and two faces or “masks” peering up from the buckle’s curved edge. The first owner, by tradition, was Sarah Jervis (1708‒1756), who lived in Philadelphia, where she married William Sandwith, a Quaker merchant from Wexford, Ireland. Her initials, SS, are engraved on the underside. The buckle was preserved by their daughter, the noted Philadelphia diarist Elizabeth Drinker.