✅ SOLVED Found near a lucky horse shoe???

[JccEldreth]

In the front yard of an 1800 home.
Measures 1.25" by 2.25" by 1.25"
Horse related?

 

[vpnavy]

While waiting for a member to pipe in - I pulled these from other TN threads...

Buckles Through The Ages by Chris Marshall
NOTE: Most of the pictures referenced on TN are found within Chris Marshall's WebSite



Old Buckle, Flat Buttons, and Civil War Bullets - Good Weekend (Aug 10, 2015)



Unknown find from 18th Century Homestead (Jun 08, 2008)



Buckle?.. (Sep 25, 2010)



CELLAR HOLE*SILVER COLONIAL KNEE BUCKLE*KG COPPER (Sep 28, 2011)
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[BosnMate]

It's a harness buckle. Off horse or mule harness.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

It is a "Union Loop" roller horseharness buckle. The thin iron sheetmetal roller is missing from your find. We date them as being post civil war, because they show up in late-1800s/early-1900s horseharness/tack/saddlery mailorder catalogs. So far as I currently know of, nobody has reported seeing a Union Loop buckle in civil war era catalogs.

The photo below shows a dug one with its roller intact, as found and posted here by fellow T-Net member Quindy.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

It is a "Union Loop" horseharness buckle. We date them as being post civil war, because they show up in late-1800s/early-1900s horseharness/tack/saddlery mailorder catalogs. For example, the J.M. Eilers & Co. Saddlery Hardware catalog, page 107, here:
https://archive.org/details/catalogueno200jmei
So far as I currently know of, nobody has reported seeing a Union Loop buckle in civil war era catalogs.

 

[JccEldreth]

Thank you guys so much, I hope to one day be as helpful as you are to me.

 

[olroy70]

keep looking, and you might find 3 more horseshoes and more buckles............and bones!!!!!

 

[cw0909]

It is a "Union Loop" horseharness buckle. We date them as being post civil war, because they show up in late-1800s/early-1900s horseharness/tack/saddlery mailorder catalogs. For example, the J.M. Eilers & Co. Saddlery Hardware catalog, page 107, here:
https://archive.org/details/catalogueno200jmei
So far as I currently know of, nobody has reported seeing a Union Loop buckle in civil war era catalogs.

nice,book marking this thread
pg for buckle
https://archive.org/stream/catalogueno200jmei#page/107/mode/1up/search/Union+Loop