Wilber,
Excellent job as usual sir!
Equine photos are always a pleasure.
Note the chain to the single-tree (the bar that the harness attaches to) --chain is used on heavy harness as a buggy harness would have on the tip end a button hole to hook into a "T" attachment on the side of the single-tree. Single trees swivel so the shoulders of horses weren't rubbed raw. Riders/drivers wore a heavy leather shield on the right side--nearest the other horse. It is most exposed to the shaft banging into the leg with extreme force that it could break a leg, also the harness rubs low on an unprotected leg. "Red Legs" often was a term for these shin/lower leg protectors. In photo #21 and #22, the driver/rider is wearing a cavalry saber length saber/sword--and the whip which is draped over his left arm, is woven leather--the length of a 'huntsman's' hunting whip.
Excellent job as usual sir!
Equine photos are always a pleasure.
Note the chain to the single-tree (the bar that the harness attaches to) --chain is used on heavy harness as a buggy harness would have on the tip end a button hole to hook into a "T" attachment on the side of the single-tree. Single trees swivel so the shoulders of horses weren't rubbed raw. Riders/drivers wore a heavy leather shield on the right side--nearest the other horse. It is most exposed to the shaft banging into the leg with extreme force that it could break a leg, also the harness rubs low on an unprotected leg. "Red Legs" often was a term for these shin/lower leg protectors. In photo #21 and #22, the driver/rider is wearing a cavalry saber length saber/sword--and the whip which is draped over his left arm, is woven leather--the length of a 'huntsman's' hunting whip.