An Antique Rutter's Horse Twitch latin america and there is a small

and there is a small hole where one was attached

Each cheek has a brass boss or badge with the head of Medusa

length of tread 8¾" (22

There is a crown shaped metal "gatepusher" on the top of the hornIt has a silver collar which is hallmarked London 1909 and stamped with the silversmith's initials "W

An Antique Rutter's Horse Twitch latin america and there is a smallThis tool was used to quieten horses when they didn't want to cooperate with a procedure. One of the wooden bars would be placed on each side of the animal's upper lip muzzle & the bars would be strapped together at their free ends, squeezing the lip. Theoretically the use of a twitch promotes the production of endorphins in the horse's body, making it calmer . Personally I am rather doubtful about this theory and suspect that twitches worked more by