Hookie thing.

[Freak2600]

Hookie thing. SOLVED

Any ideas?

 

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[ARC]

Some sort of livestock tack ? ? ?

From Tree tack. ?

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Your brass loop "hookie thing" (as you titled your post) is called a Latta Swivel, from early-1900s horseharness. See the image below, from a 1909 horsegear mail-order catalog. (Scan made by our esteemed fellow ID-helper BigCypressHunter.)

 

[devldog]

Nice save and I.D. On the horse tack piece.

 

[Freak2600]

Thank you everyone for the help