Genuine Leather Western Belt with Ornate Snake Buckle

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The buckle is the architecture here: an oval frame in silver-tone rope detail surrounds a brass eagle in full relief, with a mirrored golden dial set behind the motif that catches light from every angle. Mixed-metal hardware runs the full length of the strap, the warm brass of the centerpiece playing directly against the cooler silver-tone conchos spaced along the leather. Each concho carries its own embossed surface pattern, so the detailing never drops off toward the tail. The leather itself is hand-tooled, with scrollwork pressed deep enough to hold its definition after decades of wear. A piece that reads as genuinely from the Southwestern belt-making tradition of its era, not a later revival.