Identifying this bit

[Jhshetan]

Can anyone help ![](e to identify this bit and what it’s value might be? I thought that it was a Professor Beery bit because of the cheek pieces but the two sliding mouth pieces are throwing me off. Thanks!

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[Color_of_Light]

Looks like an antique driving bit. Maybe Imperial driving? There might be a date stamped on it.

[x]

This is similar, but not quite the same, as a JIC Driving Bit that I have hanging on my wall; it is solid, not broken mouthpiece, with similar cheeks with a half-cheek, and the mouthpiece is double and sliding when pulled on the small rings on the side.

[Jhshetan]

I can’t find anything stamped.

[Scarlet_Gilia]

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This is similar, but not quite the same, as a JIC Driving Bit that I have hanging on my wall; it is solid, not broken mouthpiece, with similar cheeks with a half-cheek, and the mouthpiece is double and sliding when pulled on the small rings on the side.[/QUOTE]

My parents gave me an ancient JIC bit that they found in an antique store in WNC. After some Googling, I found several references that state JIC is short for “Just In Case.” Yes, that bit might come in handy with a runaway horse!

[demidq]

Goodness that is quite the contraption!

[Xanthoria]

It’s a citation but with a less common slotted cheek. For leverage. As if the two mouthpieces and (missing) nose part weren’t enough!

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JIC does not stand for just in case but for Jerome I Case, the founder of JI Case company that manufactured farm equipment. Mr Case had a horse called Jay Eye See and that bit was designed for that horse according to legend on the track. Jay Eye See was the horse used for years in Case advertising.

[MyssMyst]

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It’s a citation but with a less common slotted cheek. For leverage. As if the two mouthpieces and (missing) nose part weren’t enough![/QUOTE]

Cool! Learn something new every day!

[sublimequine]

Looks like a Berry Bit to me.

https://www.horseloverz.com/english-horse-tack/english-bits/driving-bit/coronet-berry-bit-driving-bit-with-link?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&scid=scplp15215942&sc_intid=200-131497&gclid=CjwKEAiAkajDBRCRq8Czmdj-yFgSJADikZggCPDPoB1_LwFXVNm3Kx8qKT180Eo6JMnj3s4qkAtVmxoC72Tw_wcB

Hopefully the link works! If not just google “berry
Bit”.

[Scarlet_Gilia]

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JIC does not stand for just in case but for Jerome I Case, the founder of JI Case company that manufactured farm equipment. Mr Case had a horse called Jay Eye See and that bit was designed for that horse according to legend on the track. Jay Eye See was the horse used for years in Case advertising.[/QUOTE]

I love snipets of history like this! Here is an ad from 1888 for the Jay-Eye-See Stallion bit. I found several references to suits over the bit’s patent.

My old bit is similar to the illustration but only has lower cheeks.

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Like to see those old ads. If you read the very end, Racine Malleable and Wrought Iron was managed by a member of the Case family