What type of bit is this?

[stangs]

Can't find my photo of it so here's an artist's rendition.



I didn't get a close look but it seemed to me like a double-jointed loose ring snaffle, except also featuring a cartoon-window-looking bit of metal attached to the centre of the bit. There were no joints between the centre piece of the bit and the window-thing; it was one joined bit of metal.

Any ideas? I'm presuming it's some sort of key bit, but struggling to find more info.

 

[Exasperated]

Can't find my photo of it so here's an artist's rendition.

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I didn't get a close look but it seemed to me like a double-jointed loose ring snaffle, except also featuring a cartoon-window-looking bit of metal attached to the centre of the bit. There were no joints between the centre piece of the bit and the window-thing; it was one joined bit of metal.

Any ideas? I'm presuming it's some sort of key bit, but struggling to find more info.

Tongue layer, stop the horse getting it above the bit

 

[DabDab]

Sounds like a tongue control snaffle

 

[stangs]

Thanks both, so I suppose it's an old-fashioned version of this?

 

[teapot]

One of these? https://secondhandhorsebits.com/products/copy-of-5-loose-ring-tongue-control-snaffle-bit-2240

 

[FieldOrnaments]

Tongue paddle snaffle

Like that? https://www.onlineforequine.co.uk/p...1WTTPSJUzLpM6su2yon9HQIPzyw-LnOgaAqygEALw_wcB

 

[stangs]

Yes, like those just with a larger piece at the centre.

Found the photo:

 

[DabDab]

Thanks both, so I suppose it's an old-fashioned version of this?

Yeah, it's years (decades) since I saw one like you describe.
I rode in one once and it was a horrid experience (For me as well as the horse I'm sure)

 

[stangs]

Another bit I'd like to know more about, just seems a very curious design to have the two loose rings in the centre. I'm presuming the bridle belonged to a railway horse, based on the LMS on the blinkers, but is this a bit that was used with other harnessed horses?

 

[Beausmate]

Scorrier? Actually, I think it's a Wilson. The cheekpieces attach to the small, floating rings and the reins to the loose rings. Slow or barley twist mouthpiece.

 

[Poingsettia]

The rings are for reins, separate to the rings on cheek pieces.

 

[rabatsa]

A twisted wilson snaffle.

 

[Mrs. Glittery Jingle Balls]

Is it a Wilson snaffle with twisted cannons?

 

[Mrs. Glittery Jingle Balls]

A twisted wilson snaffle.

Snap! thankyou rabasta I wasn't sure.

 

[stangs]

Thanks all - you've saved me many hours of frustrated Googling.

Scorrier? Actually, I think it's a Wilson. The cheekpieces attach to the small, floating rings and the reins to the loose rings. Slow or barley twist mouthpiece.

Looks like scorriers have holes in the mouthpiece to limit how far the floating rings can move, or is that just modern scorriers?

 

[Beausmate]

Thanks all - you've saved me many hours of frustrated Googling.


Looks like scorriers have holes in the mouthpiece to limit how far the floating rings can move, or is that just modern scorriers?

They do. It's one of those things I always get the wrong way round!

 

[Lois Lame]

Ooh, I don't like the look of that one with the twisted mouthpiece. I hate any twisted bit with a passion, just imagining the feel of them for the horse.