WEll I dont post much but this is too cool . My nephew was out and found an old brass US belt bucklein the woods close to the river. We looked online and it looked authentic, but u never know. Took it to the museum the other day and had a guy check it out. He said he was 99.9 % positive it was authentic and placed it in around the 1870's timeline. Said it was from around the Indian Wars era when the military was moving west to settle the country.