🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Type of buckle

[Nathan W]

Found at 1700/1800s area I’ve never seen one with a swirl or circle like this before . Anyone can identify or date possibly

 

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[Mud Hut]

general purpose lockable strap buckle.

 

[pepperj]

Found at 1700/1800s area I’ve never seen one with a swirl or circle like this before . Anyone can identify or date possibly

With all the horse tack buckles that I've dug, that is one that I haven't as of yet.
Well dug.

 

[ncsuwolf]

general purpose lockable strap buckle.

Assuming the leather strap would have had slits vs holes and then a snap/pin went through the hole in the tongue? Never seen one of those before.

 

[Mud Hut]

Assuming the leather strap would have had slits vs holes and then a snap/pin went through the hole in the tongue? Never seen one of those before.

yes.. slots rather than holes.

 

[Mud Hut]

They still make them today:

All-Purpose Strap Buckle with Locking TongueAntique Brass / 3/4" (19 mm)

Specifications Strap Size: 0.75 in. (19.05 mm) Strap Size: 1 in. (25.4 mm)

tandyleather.com

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

NCSUwolf said:
> Assuming the leather strap would have had slits vs holes and then a snap/pin went
> through the hole in the tongue? Never seen one of those before.

Nathan W found the simplest version. Here are two photos showing a slightly more complicated version of "Locking Strap-Buckle." It could be locked by using a small lock's horseshoe-bar (can't remember the proper name for it) going through the loop on the end of the buckle's tongue-bar. This version appears in early-1900s horsegear catalogs. In my 50 years of relic-hunting, I've never heard of somebody digging any kind of locking-buckle deep in a civil war battle trench or in an army winter-camp hutsite. So I assume they are postwar.

 

[Mud Hut]

NCSUwolf said:
> Assuming the leather strap would have had slits vs holes and then a snap/pin went
> through the hole in the tongue? Never seen one of those before.

Nathan W found the simplest version. Here are two photos showing a slightly more complicated version of "Locking Strap-Buckle." It could be locked by using a small lock's horseshoe-bar (can't remember the proper name for it) going through the loop on the end of the buckle's tongue-bar. This version appears in early-1900s horsegear catalogs. In my 50 years of relic-hunting, I've never heard of somebody digging any kind of locking-buckle deep in a civil war battle trench or in an army winter-camp hutsite. So I assume they are postwar.

Guess the id popped the op's bubble, The thread fell silent.

 

[Nathan W]

NCSUwolf said:
> Assuming the leather strap would have had slits vs holes and then a snap/pin went
> through the hole in the tongue? Never seen one of those before.

Nathan W found the simplest version. Here are two photos showing a slightly more complicated version of "Locking Strap-Buckle." It could be locked by using a small lock's horseshoe-bar (can't remember the proper name for it) going through the loop on the end of the buckle's tongue-bar. This version appears in early-1900s horsegear catalogs. In my 50 years of relic-hunting, I've never heard of somebody digging any kind of locking-buckle deep in a civil war battle trench or in an army winter-camp hutsite. So I assume they are postwar.

Thanks cannonballguy