This bridle is made of very dark brown / black leather it would have been used on a heavy horse pulling a brewer's cart or dray.
There is a screwhole in the top of the headpiece where a terret could be attached. It has blinkers, each of which is decorated with a brass barrel There is an oval plaque above the browband .
Below the browband there is a crescent shaped horse brass . The noseband has a brass plate engraved "Mattick, Maker, Malmesbury". The tip of the left side of this plaque has broken off.
Arthur Mattick was listed as a saddler at 12, High Street Malmesbury in Kelly's 1915 directory.
The bridle has a handmade jointed snaffle bit, it can be detached on one side to function as a watering bit.
There are heavy brass buckles throughout
This was a working bridle and there are old repairs to the noseband and the reins
