Unique buckle?

[BLACKIE555]

Night digging find.... wish I had found a can of OFF when looking.
I've never picked a buckle like this. Probably common but i thought it looked nice and....it was my only find.

 

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[Blackfoot58]

It is quite nice. Congrats on a good find.👍🏼

 

[Digger RJ]

Night digging find.... wish I had found a can of OFF when looking.
I've never picked a buckle like this. Probably common but i thought it looked nice and....it was my only find.
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Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[pepperj]

That is a nice buckle, ive never dug one like it with the ring at the tongue.

 

[BLACKIE555]

That is a nice buckle, ive never dug one like it with the ring at the tongue.

Me neither, I wonder what purpose it had?

 

[creskol]

That is called a "locking tongue buckle"

 

[creskol]

 

[BLACKIE555]

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Nice....thanks. I tried every keyword I could think of whilst searching...never thought of locking!

 

[Silvermonkey]

That's an unusual buckle in my book. Cool find. Points for creskol for the ID. How old might that buckle be?

 

[oldmxrat]

That's a neat find, congrats!

 

[jewelerguy]

yikes, looks like something they'd put on some kind of restraints.

 

[Almy]

Neat find and ID. I've never seen one before either and wondered how it worked. I see slots in the belt instead of the usual holes. I hadn't thought of slots and seeing them made it understandable.

 

[Georgivs]

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Kinky?

 

[devldog]

Great Save of the old unique buckle. Not too many of those around. Being as it was night time, did you nique up on it? Congrat's.

 

[creskol]

Kinky?

If you so choose.

 

[Blak bart]

chastity belt buckle....lock it up tight🤣😂🤣😆

 

[Aureus]

I've never found or seen one like that. A very unusual and cool buckle. Congrats!

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Silvermonkey said:
> How old might that buckle be?

Since my old friend Creskol seems to have accidentally overlooked your question, I'll answer it. The "locking buckle" is definitely a horse-harness buckle... it appears in a diagram in the 1907 J.M. Eilers & Co. (Cincinatti OH) mail-order saddlery & horseharness. catalog. That fact would date your buckle to the very-early 1900s, and possibly the late-1800s. I do not believe it's any older than that because we civil war relicdiggers do not find these locking buckles "in context" at civil war entrenchments or winter campsites.

 

[creskol]

I am not sure why you would need a lockable buckle on a horse harness. The applications I have seen were on luggage straps. That type of buckle is still made today.