✅ SOLVED Patent Date help

[fyrffytr1]

I found a suspender clip or something along that line that has a Sept. 2nd 1856 patent date on it. Can anyone help me correctly ID it.
In the picture it is the piece under the large button that is left of the penny.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Because you only had the date, and not the patent number, I searched through every US patent issued on Sept. 2, 1856. (Over 30 were issued on that date.) The closest match I can find for your "buckle" is patent #15,666, which is also for a buckle...but it only somewhat resembles yours, having an oval-shaped slot but no curved tongue. You can view the patent-diagram and info here: http://www.pat2pdf.org/patents/pat15666.pdf

 

[fyrffytr1]

I double checked the date and it is definitely Sep. 2nd 1856. Thank you for your help.

 

[nhbenz]

I suppose it would be used opposite this (which is oddly close to TCB's patent link item, but not quite);
http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/todays-finds/49649-old-buckle.html

 

[nhbenz]

I'm wondering now if it might go to a bra rather than suspenders, having had some of these show up in image searches, but couldn't find a close-up of the hardware. However I must now go to sleep... Maybe it'll come to me in my dreams.

 

[capt-zero]

Bras were an early 20th century invention.

 

[fyrffytr1]

I suppose it would be used opposite this (which is oddly close to TCB's patent link item, but not quite);
http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/todays-finds/49649-old-buckle.html

That looks just like mine except i am missing the part with the two tongues. Everyone there agreed it is a suspender buckle so I am going to go with that and give this post a green check. Thanks for the help.