Help indentifing hook?

[mspence]

Anyone know what this is? Found in CW camp area in VA. Def not iron, maybe brass?

Thanks for looking

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[taz42o]

Sword belts had a brass wire hook on a D ring, not sure if thats what you have or not .

 

[taz42o]

After looking at your hook some more, from the shape I think its from a horse bit not a sword belt.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Taz is correct, as usual. Note that your hook has a sharp point ...which the sword-scabbard-hanger hook does not have. Your find is a curb-chain hook from a horsebit, as shown in Taz's photo. To see it specifically documented as a curb chain hook, look at the lower left corner of the photo below, which shows a page from the 1907 Pierson-&-Howe mailorder catalog of horsegear. (You may need to use TreasureNet's super-enlargement option to read the word "Curb" next to the sharp-pointed hook in the catalog.) Let me give public credit to Creskol for originally posting the photo here at TN, a few years ago.

 

[mspence]

Awesome, thanks for the help once again. I feel confident that's it. One more down!