Need help on Iding an old brass buckle with a flower pattern stamp

[bonepicker]

Need help on Id'ing an old brass buckle with a flower pattern stamp

Dug this old brass buckle the other day in a schoolyard and it was my only interesting find other than a dollar or so in clad.
The school was probably built in the 1920's, but the surrounding area is much older.
It has a small flower pattern stamped on it twice, and it measutes 1.47" x 1.22".
I am guessing some sort of suspender tensioner, but ive never seen one like this.
Any idea, and possible age??

 

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[tennessee digger]

That is a suspender buckle, no doubt. I have never been able to date that particular pattern (I've dug several exactly like yours over the years) but I think that they date from the mid 1870's until the early 1880's. I've never found one like that in a civil war camp myself but some of the diggers around here say that they have so that would date your buckle to the 1860's.