✅ SOLVED Snow Day ID

[simulant]

Another snowy day in Rhode Island -- perfect for posting some of my unidentified items I've compiled over the years. So here's another one -- was this something that attached to a belt to hold something else perhaps?

 

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[The Rebel]

It's a Gag Loop. Many people confuse these for sword hangers.

https://books.google.com/books?id=z...ed=0CEkQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q="Gag Loop"&f=false

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

The Rebel is correct. More specifically, your brass "gag loop swivel" is a piece of horse-harness from the bridle-&-reins assembly. An exact match for yours is found in late-1800s/early-1900s horseharness catalogs, and yours most probably dates from that time... but I should also mention, they're still being made and sold today. See the 1907 mail-order catalog scans, and the modern-made version in the photo below -- the gag loop swivel is the component on the left in the photo of the "gag chain."

 

[simulant]

Very awesome indeed. There's a lot more to horse harnesses than I thought -- all I gotta say is poor horses! Thanks once again!!!

 

[The Rebel]

Very awesome indeed. There's a lot more to horse harnesses than I thought -- all I gotta say is poor horses! Thanks once again!!!

Yea, it's like 50 Shades of Mister Ed, LOL!