🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Type of a rein guide?

[pepperj]

Dug this yesterday.
Any thoughts on what it might have been.

 

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[bartholomewroberts]

Not a rein guide.. it is the point on the surcingle, right in the centre, where the overhead check,

[sometimes called a check rein] attaches

You can see it on this image in the centre of the surcingle.. This one has a sharp end, but yours serves the same function.It goes from the head to the water hook [that is the proper name]

Micheal

 

[Gare]

I think your correct a rein type guide