✅ SOLVED Buckle age help

[maccounty]

Don't know if this is the right thread but I'm having trouble aging a US buckle. Any help is appreciated. I picked this up at an auction, it is not a personal find. My question is how old it might be or if it's even real and not a reproduction. The auction was from a collector that had recently passed and his wife was dispersing some of his things. He had a lot of civil war and ww2 items, and I'm pretty sure it's not civil war because I believe the back is wrong. Help please.

 

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[DCMatt]

VENTURE REPRODUCTION "US" CIVIL WAR ERA STYLE MILITARY BELT BUCKLE VGC | eBay

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Take this from a "retired" civil war battle re-enactor... that buckle is absolutely a modern-era Reproduction. That specific form of belt-attachment loop-&-hook did not exist until the 20th Century. It was popular around the time of the civil war Centennial (so this Reproduction buckle could be 50 years old), and was being manufactured for several decades afterward.

After-posting update:
DCMatt types faster than I do. And, he is of course correct, as usual.

 

[maccounty]

Thanks guys, that is what I figured, just making sure. I didn't know if they used that style of buckle during ww2 or 1. I'll take your word for it and give it to my youngest boy to play with or something. Thanks again!