Tack Sale Score!

Look at what Chrome finally got!!  A leather halter of his very own (actually the first leather halter I've ever owned-he's spoiled)!  And it's not even his birthday yet lol.  A friend of mine got an awesome assistant training job out of state so he had a tack sale of all of the things he no longer used and didn't want to take with him.  I only spent $34 and check out what all I got!!

So handsome in his new (to us) leather halter!  I can't figure out what kind it is because the only words in it are Full.  Oh and by the way a full is way too big for him!!  I'm going to have to put holes in it.  That's why I took the pictures from the right side because I had to rig it to keep it on.  It has a single crown buckle, a throatlatch snap, an adjustable nose, a padded nose and crown, brass hardware and no rolled leather anywhere.  If you can figure out what kind it is I'll bow to the master!!  The cheapest I've found a leather halter is $40 and I paid $7 so I call it a win!  It's only slightly scuffed in places (mainly the nose) and slightly cracked on the chin, but otherwise in great condition, especially once I've conditioned it a few more times.  It looks great on him, in my biased opinion.

One more picture in the halter.

The second item is a full sized Kieffer bridle that I paid twelve dollars for!  I looked at all the Kieffer bridles and I'm 99.9% sure it's an Anja (LINK).  It has an adjustable crown (which the Anja is the only one I've found with that kind of crown) and a crank noseband with flash.  The bridle is missing the cheekpieces, bit and flash, so basically it's a noseband with browband and throatlatch, but that works perfectly for my bitless preference.  It also came with webbed reins, but I haven't attached them yet.  Also forgive me I haven't cleaned the bridle yet... or the horse haha!  The cheapest I can find the bridle is $200, so at $12 even with the missing bit, cheekpieces and flash it's still a great deal.  :)  Also there is nothing stopping me from putting a bit on it in the future if I want to.  The funny thing is it's a full size and it fits him perfectly.  :)

 Is he not cute??  I'm so happy to have a backup bridle. 

 Here you can see the unique adjustable crown.  If you enlarge the picture you can see the second buckle where the cheekpiece and bit would attach.  I've only put it on him once so I don't know if I'm going to like that style of crownpiece yet, but I think it's going to be nice.  You can also see the crank noseband that I will not be cranking lol.  It's a very plain bridle, but I think it looks really cute on him.

 One question, do I need to lower it one hole? 

I can fit two fingers between his cheek and the noseband.

The web reins.  I love that it has the little leather pieces (what are those called?) so I can keep my hands even on the reins as we work on contact.  My laced reins are kind of a guessing game lol.

It has the dreaded hook studs, but I'm putting clips on like with my other bridle so it's okay.  :)

Here is a picture of the rest of the stuff I got...

Two bags of electric fence insulators, two spools of electric tape (one was wrapped up not on the spool so I left it out of the picture), a sweat scraper and a lead rope.  The original price on the electric tape is $25 a piece and the insulators are $10 a piece.  I'm not sure how much the sweat scraper and lead rope cost originally.  I got it all for $15.  So I got approx. $300 worth of stuff for $35!  Definitely a score!  :D

I just realized I didn't post a close up of the halter from the side, so here is a crappy almost from the side picture hehe.  Look at his eyelashes!  :)