A kepi with a strand of thread left?

[IowaRelic]

Rode my sons bike to the end of the road and ditched it in the woods. Walked around with the DEUS for and hour and a half working an old road bed. Didn’t dig anything. Got back to the bike and hit this. I think it’s a kepi buckle...and it has a hefty blue thread still tangled on it!!! One image shows another buckle I found a few years ago in Iowa. Another image I’m using the lighter for size reference. What y’all think?

 

[hunter12]

That is really a great find. Looks like a Kepi buckle. Only thing is the tread, Kepi buckles were on a leather band, not sewn on. I'm sure someone will come along and tell us.

 

[IowaRelic]

That is really a great find. Looks like a Kepi buckle. Only thing is the tread, Kepi buckles were on a leather band, not sewn on. I'm sure someone will come along and tell us.

You know, I thought the same thing....

 

[IowaRelic]

And I now that I think of it...there was a wasted old ball cap nearby. All that was left was the plastic bill. And some of the band where it’s thicker fabric. I swept over it and got the little steel rivet piece that holds the top of the cap together. I might have to go back there and look at the remains of the cap and see what the adjuster was. If it was fabric with a buckle then I have my answer. If it’s plastic or Velcro then, woo hoo!

 

[hawgdawg]

It seems the curve in the buckle would be opposite if it were a hat adjustment piece ,, just an opinion here .
Nice find either way.