Belt buckle

A belt buckle formed of a front face piece and rear face piece parallel thereto when said buckle is closed, each of said face pieces being a single piece, said front face piece and rear face piece being the only face pieces present in said belt buckle, each face piece having opposed depending sides extending at substantially right angles thereto, and said rear face piece further having means for bracing said front face piece in the open position, there being at each of the sides of adjacent ends of each face piece opening holes with connectors therein which connectors are flush on the insides which face a belt and which connect the faces in a manner such at the two faces can open to a maximum angle of about 30.degree. apart from each other, at which 30.degree. angle the front face piece is braced by contact with said means on the rear face piece, each of said face pieces extending rearwardly substantially no further than the ends of their sides;

• and said front face piece includes an integral frictional wedged prong perpendicularly connected to the far end of said front face piece forwardly from said holes and said connectors, which prong can engage said rear face piece in a positive locking manner when the buckle is closed.