BRASS CURB BIT CHAIN FOUND ON HERR’S RIDGE FROM THE MINNICK COLLECTION; GEISELMAN COLLECTION

BRASS CURB BIT CHAIN FOUND ON HERR’S RIDGE FROM THE MINNICK COLLECTION; GEISELMAN COLLECTION

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Item Code: 2025-594

This linked chain made of brass was used in conjunction with the curb bit.  Attached to the bit and placed under the horse’s chin, the chain would prevent the bit from upsetting inside the horse’s mouth.  When the reins are tightened it would also help keep the bit in proper position.  All links move freely, meas. 9”long.  Minnick was a very early battlefield guide in the 1880-1890’s.  He also wrote and published several guide books.   Identified in John Geiselman’s museum listing by his inventory listing.  Previously sold as item R11413.  [ws][ph:L]

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The Horse Soldier was pleased to offer a number of items from the John P. Geiselman collection, a collection that was on display for many years at the Geiselman Country Store Museum on Barlow - Two Taverns Road. Geiselman began his collecting as a child in the early 1920s, and during the pre-World II period had access to artifacts that had been purchased earlier at the estate sales of the Trostle, Rogers, Rose, Weikert, and Wentz farms - local properties that figured prominently in the battle and its aftermath. During this period he had access as well to the Hill , Plank, and Stewart collections, and was able to acquire other items that had been sold from turn-of-the-century relics establishments such as the Danner, Ziegler, and Oak Ridge Museums. Furthermore, Geiselman carefully documented most artifacts, and collectors perusing the list will be able to note, in many instances, not only the source of the relic and the date of its recovery, but also the part of the battlefield from which it came. In other words, his collection is the last major grouping of Gettysburg artifacts assembled and documented by a local resident.

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