🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Found this buckle piece in Shippensburg can anybody identify it?

[Beeps in my sleep]

I found this buckle piece in my neighbor's yard in Shippensburg. It feels kind of light and it is non-magnetic. I was thinking something for a sash buckle or something like that from the 1950s. Can anybody help me out?

 

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[Blackfoot58]

Santa Claus belt buckle from a yard ornament? Some had actual non-molded clothes and buckles were very thin alloy.

 

[ColtsPop]

Nice. Likely pre civil war. Either belt or sash depending on weight

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

I do not believe it was manufactured before the 20th-Century. Note the flanges (short projections) on both sides of the centerbar's middle, which kept the floating tongue from sliding over to one side instead of staying well-centered to fit the strap's adjustment holes. See the photo below. That characteristic (centering flanges) is not seen until around the start of the 20th-Century.