Bridle from an excursion tack

Bridle from an excursion tack, end of the 19th century. Among the purchases of the Castle Museum of Łańcut, presented mainly at the Parade Harness Room at the Stables, there are tacks and parts of tacks purchased by the Museum – which thus created an interesting collection of tacks from the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries, used mostly for royal trains. The bridle for an excursion tack is a unique feature here; it bears the court of arms of the Saxon Wettin family. Made of black varnished leather, the equipment and heraldic components are made of a white metal imitating silver. The headstall is broad, with attachments for the side reins, becoming the side bands and the throatlatch, the headstall and a flat chain. At the sides of the headstall there are two rosettas with a ducal mitre in relief. The blinkers have rounded outer corners, and are additionally fixed by leather straps fixed to the headstall, with heraldic emblems – round shields with the coat of arms of Saxon princes, surrounded by a band with the cry VIGILANDO ANSCENDIMUS, above which is the mitre. The cheekpieces carry the bit. Aldona Cholewianka-Kruszyńska