Excerpt from Description and Directions for the Use and Care of Cavalry Equipment: Model of 1912; Oct, 5, 1914, Seventeen Plates A brow band, of medium harness leather 18 inches long and 1g inches wide in the middle and tapering to 5 inch wide at each end, where loops inches long are stitched to encircle the cheek piece, bridoon crown piece, and throat latch on each side of the head. Onto these loops are slipped g-inch brass-wire loops which separate the cheek piece from the throat latch and bridoon crown piece. The throat latch, a plain strap of medium harness leather 1 inch wide and 433 inches long, passes up through the loops in the brow band in rear of the cheek piece and directly over the bridoon crown piece and down under the throat of the horse, passing through the upper loop in the throat strap, and ending in a common buckle on the near side, where six holes are punched for adjustment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.