🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Can this be identified?

[BigWaveDave]

Asking for a friend…. Anyone know what this is?
Appears to be brass… or copper

 

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[Gene Mean]

Some kind of fob.

 

[pepperj]

To jockeys, horse racing.

 

[Randawg72]

It looks like a horse harness medallion. And since it depicts two horses and riders, it may have been a prize for horse racing.

 

[UnderMiner]

It's called a Horse Brass. They're used to decorate horses. Were particularly popular in the 19th century. They're quite collectable.

Horse brass - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[pepperj]

It looks like a horse harness medallion. And since it depicts two horses and riders, it may have been a prize for horse racing.

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It's called a Horse Brass. They're used to decorate horses. Were particularly popular in the 19th century. They're quite collectable.
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Horse brass - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Horse brass is quite a bit larger than this one.
Certainly has the style though.
Wondering if they also made fob styled ones.
Here is a size reference penny to horse brass.

 

[BigWaveDave]

Thanks guys for pointing me in the right direction…
Obviously it’s horse racing related, probably a fob.
So I dove deeper into this with some trial and error, and I found this picture….
It depicts an early Preakness race, I think in Harve de Grace MD. Building looks the same, dontchya think?

 

[Glen's Loyalists]

Thanks guys for pointing me in the right direction…
Obviously it’s horse racing related, probably a fob.
So I dove deeper into this with some trail and error, and I found this picture….
It depicts an early Preakness race, I think in Harve de Grace MD. Building looks the same, dontchya think?
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Now that's some good detecting work there! Well done.