🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Anyone happen to know what era this buckle came from ?

[Boonieguy]

 

[Boonieguy]

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My cousin found it mudlarking in the Missouri River near where an old city dump was

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

That exact form of belt-buckle hook was popular in the 1960s, and very often seen on "Battlefield Souvenir Shop" civil war reproduction and "Fantasy" buckles. I do not think it is older than the mid-1900s.

 

[pepperj]

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Almost like wacky tobaki buckle.

 

[AU Seeker]

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Not sure what era it's from but I think 1960s to 1970s could be right, that being said it could be worth a nice bit of money...maybe.

Rare Tech Ether Guild Leaf Solid Brass Vintage Belt Buckle - Etsy

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It appears to have been made by "Tech-Ether Guild Inc., they were popular for their quality red brass and construction methods and now seems to be worth good money, I think the company or at least their artists were possibly Hippies.

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They have as mentioned in the above link have a Facebook page but doesn't look to had at action/posts in a few years.

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The buckles made by them are so desirable and sell for good money that they are being faked, most real ones are signed/have the logo on the back but a few real ones do not, I think yours is real.

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[Red-Coat]

I think it’s a reproduction.

The buckle designs produced by the TEC collective of artists were heavily targeted by counterfeiters at the time and further reproduced as replicas after TEC went out of business (which I believe was in the 1980s). Genuine TEC buckles are normally recognised for being ‘red brass’ with a high copper content, as in the Etsy listing above, not the yellowish brass of yours. It looks like one of the later replicas.

 

[Boonieguy]

I think it’s a reproduction.

The buckle designs produced by the TEC collective of artists were heavily targeted by counterfeiters at the time and further reproduced as replicas after TEC went out of business (which I believe was in the 1980s). Genuine TEC buckles are normally recognised for being ‘red brass’ with a high copper content, as in the Etsy listing above, not the yellowish brass of yours. It looks like one of the later replicas.

Thanks for the info guys . My dad’s been wearing it for the last 7 or 8 years . It could have ended up in the river a multitude of ways