Something brass

[WallyWanderer]

This is by no means valuable, but was hoping some might have a clue as to what it is. It's brass, and thin, and I will show front and back photos. Hoping someone might know.... TIA Edited to say...it's about 1 & 1/2 inches wide. Oops!

 

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[ekeisler]

Looks like a suspender buckle

 

[WallyWanderer]

Thanks ekeisler. I'm thinking you mean what we would call braces? (In Australia). They hold up a mans trousers instead of a belt? (Suspenders here are what a woman used to hold up her stockings). I'll google that to see if I can see some similar. Thanks.

 

[CRUSADER]

I'm thinking it maybe a late 19th C Ladies sash buckle (keeper/hasp).

 

[DigginDownUnder]

My first impression was a war medal buckle, but ekeisler is probably right.

 

[duggap]

Gang, I don't believe there is any way it is anything but a keeper for a belt plate. I don't know if it is fashion or military, but I don't think it is a suspender clip.

 

[lockster99]

Trousers?....what's that? Just kidding.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Crusader is correct... it is the "keeper" from a mid-1800s-to-early-1900s civilian sash-buckle, made of stamped sheetbrass. At just 1.5-inches wide, it is too narrow (and also too "light-duty") to be from a military buckle. Note the EXTREMELY thin rim around the hole for the buckle's tongue-hook... if you put any weight on that belt, such as a sword or cartridge-box or pistol, the hole in the keeper would break. It can only be a sash-buckle's keeper.

 

[CRUSADER]

Crusader is correct... it is the "keeper" from a mid-1800s-to-early-1900s civilian sash-buckle, made of stamped sheetbrass. At just 1.5-inches wide, it is too narrow (and also too "light-duty") to be from a military buckle. Note the EXTREMELY thin rim around the hole for the buckle's tongue-hook... if you put any weight on that belt, such as a sword or cartridge-box or pistol, the hole in the keeper would break. It can only be a sash-buckle's keeper.

True, one of my after thoughts was it could also be a mans, at first the decor & light construction made me think female. So safer to say Civvy rather than ladies.