Help me understand the age of this belt buckel/ something else

[kimonswanson643]

This I think is a belt buckel but I am not sure can anyone help me understand the age or what it is please

 

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[BosnMate]

Need something to size it. It's a buckle, but to what? It doesn't look like harness or bridle or a halter buckle to me, but again, what's the size

 

[kimonswanson643]

This is it little more than one and a half

 

[BosnMate]

It's about an inch wide, and old enough the the iron tongue is rusted away, so my guess it could be a leather horse halter buckle.

Note the buckle below the ear.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

You asked about the age of your buckle. First let me say I do not see myself as an expect on Civilian buckles (my area of study has been Military ones). But I notice your buckle's middle-bar isn't plain/smooth, it has tiny flanges on it which keep the buckle's tongue from sliding off-center on the bar. I have not seen that characteristic on any civil war era or earlier buckles.

Also, I haven't see "centering" flanges on any buckles which I'm sure are pre-1900. If somebody here knows of "centering" flanges on pre-1900 buckles, please speak up with examples. Until somebody does, I think your buckle is from sometime in the 20th-Century, or perhaps latter-1800s at the earliest.

 

[kimonswanson643]

Thanks for your help