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[mcogan / L.I. Mongo Mike]

Found on Long Island NY.
Property documented to 1830 and goes back to 1776.

 

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[CRUSADER]

Just post-1900.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

When I first saw this buckle I felt it dated to the mid-19thc.
But after reading Cru's post that it dated to after 1900 makes me rethink this.

It looks to be a specialized design, possibly a horse harness buckle.

Dave

 

[A2coins]

Nice old relic there Well done

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Based on 40+ years of being a civil war relic digger & dealer, and having very diligently observed the characteristics of the metal objects the armies used at that time... that buckle is from no earlier than the late-1800s. Note the two ridges at the center of the buckle's tongue bar, whose purpose is to keep the tongue from sliding off-center on the bar. No buckle from the American Civil War era that I've ever seen has those tongue-centering ridges. But they become commonplace around 1900.