✅ SOLVED Old Buckle...but just how old?

[villagenut]

This one I dug so long ago that I still get mad at myself when I see how I scraped at it to get the black paint off of it, if that was what it was.Way back when I thought everything had to be made shiny. I have never really pinned down anything solid on its age or why the bronze tang is on backwards. I think so anyways. Is it shoe buckle or what? I know someones gotta know. Thanks for looking.

 

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[Ant]

Okay you know how it feels in your hand and you don't think it is suitable for a shoe buckle, and with the prong set like that I agree with you. So if I used that buckle on a horse rigging it would be for lengthening or shortening (taking up slack) and when used with another buckle the other buckle would be a cinching or prong buckle for pulling the straps tight. That's from a man that ploughed with a georgia stock.

 

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[villagenut]

Okay you know how it feels in your hand and you don't think it is suitable for a shoe buckle, and with the prong set like that I agree with you. So if I used that buckle on a horse rigging it would be for lengthening or shortening (taking up slack) and when used with another buckle the other buckle would be a cinching or prong buckle for pulling the straps tight. That's from a man that ploughed with a georgia stock.

Well I cant say for a fact that it is not a shoe buckle but it looks like similar ones that are called that. I just did not think it was a shoe buckle from after 1900 as SS suggested. With the prong going backwards, I am not so sure I would use it on a horse if that prong would irritate the horses flesh by poking at it. Maybe the prong is not right the way it is ? I did find another buckle on this site that I am pretty sure is part of horse tack along with some shoeing nails(I think).But with layers of finds ranging through many years, they may not be related. I am attaching a photo of them here.I thought for sure that this would be readily recognized and put to bed by now, lol. Thanks Ant

 

[Ant]

I think it would be used on trac lines not against the body. I have see that type of buckle used with the prong that way, it was used for taking up long lengths of strap in the middle of the rigging.

 

[Silver Searcher]

It's not a shoe buckle, or nothing like one. It has no tongue or chape which shoe buckles have. All the double looped buckles like the one posted, with raised or offset bars on the UKFD, are horse harness buckles and date to the 1900's.

SS

 

[ARC]

book buckle

 

[vhs07]

I may be way off base here, but isn't the black colored side front of the buckle? Can't you just flip the prong to the other side and (first picture) and it be right and not backwards at all?

 

[SuperDiscO]

Anyone got any idea on this one?

 

[lookindown]

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Anyone got any idea on this one?

Looks like pure gold.

 

[lookindown]

I may be way off base here, but isn't the black colored side front of the buckle? Can't you just flip the prong to the other side and (first picture) and it be right and not backwards at all?

It doesn't look backwards to me either.