Imitation of a curb bit made of tinned iron. Such forms of curb bit were used in Due to the fact that it is an imitation, a concrete imitation, it is not possible to determine the country of origin. The object was a gift from General Richard Erlenbusch. by General Richard Erlenbusch (1863 - 1937) to the Gewerbemuseum Ulm in 1923. Erlenbusch presented the Gewerbemuseum with various collections various collections as donations or loans over several years. In particular, these were military artefacts that he probably items that he presumably acquired during his combat missions during the World War I in France and Italy, among other places. Where he obtained the objects from outside Europe is not clear. These came to the museum after the end of Erlenbusch's military career (1920 and 1923).