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up, the point is then run through the D on the crown-piece 

 from the under side and through the keeper near the drop. 

 The point is fastened to the buckle end of the strap by a 

 buckle and held in place by a keeper behind the buckle. 

 When the straps are used for the drops of a plain bearing- 

 rein they are made of single, short pieces of leather sewed 

 to the throat-latch under the buckles of the latter and the 

 drops are sewed into the other end of the strap. When the 

 plain bearing-rein is used, or the bearing-rein is omitted, 

 the straps and drops from the crown-piece should be removed. 



THE BEARING-REIN DROPS are metal loops which carry the 

 bearing-rein. For use with the plain bearing-rein they are 

 made either oval or balloon shaped and should be attached 

 to the throat-latch and not to the straps from the crown- 

 piece. When used with the full bearing-rein they are pref- 

 erably balloon shaped and suspended from the crown-piece 

 in single harness, and of a double ring pattern and sus- 

 pended from the crown-piece in pair-horse harness. 



THE FACE-PIECE consists of a pear-shaped piece of leather 

 about two inches and a quarter long and an inch and a half 

 wide. At the upper or smaller end it gradually narrows 

 down to a strap, about three-quarters of an inch wide and 

 passes through a loop on the under side of the front to the 

 centre of the crown-piece, where it is held by a buckle and 

 keeper. The full length of the face-piece from the point 

 end to the bottom of the frog is about eleven and a half 

 inches. 



THE FRONT OR BROW-BAND measures about seventeen 

 inches in length and one and a quarter inches in width. 

 The front terminates in loops at both ends and has a loop 

 on the under side in the centre which retains the face-piece 



