Steel bit, with original bridle and reins covered with yellow velvet

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Armour. Bridle component. Steel bit, with original bridle and reins covered with yellow velvet. Unknown production, Germany. Circa 1500-1550. POST-CONSERVATION.

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Accession Number: M.8-1945
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 50
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 833 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 403.28kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1

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16th Century armour bit bridle Fitz_AA German High Renaissance horses tackle metalwork reins Renaissance steel tackle velvet

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