Colonial Buckle of some sort?

[Bharpring]

Anyone know what type of buckle this is? Or the approximate timeframe it was made?

 

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[BosnMate]

That's really different, at least to me it is. My SWAG --- slide for a neckerchief.

 

[trdking]

That's really different, at least to me it is. My SWAG --- slide for a neckerchief.

I think its too small for a neckerchief slide but I would but a children shoe buckle from the 1950's?

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Bharpring's small buckle appears to be plain (unplated) brass. A kid's shoe-buckle (or watch-strap buckle, etc) from the 20th Century tended not to be plain brass, which would tarnish quickly, and leave a discoloration mark on clothing or wrist, etc. The form of Bharpring's buckle, although tiny, is the same as we see on 1700s shoe-buckles... having a "swell" (or "thickening") with a drilled hole at the middle of the top and bottom of the buckle's frame to accommodate a center-pin. (See the photo below.) So, in my opinion, Bharpring's find is a Colonial Era buckle of some kind.

 

[CRUSADER]

I'm going with 18th C breech buckle (knee buckle)