WWI HORSE GAS MASK
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Francisco,
The standard Pferdemasken did not have goggles, but I would suspect that they did try goggles for later gases such as Mustard. Horses were not as susceptible to the poison as men, and the masks for horses were mainly to stop the horses from eating contaminated feed. There is a possibility that the photo you saw was of a set of blinders on the horse, some blinders do look like goggles (blinders are often just leather flaps affixed to the harness to "blind" the horses peripheral vision so that the do not spook at things that happen around them). While we are on the subject of Pferdemaske, I have a cannister that I believe may have been a storrage cannister for the horse mask shown with a Gummi Maske can to show scale.
Best wishes
Gus
The standard Pferdemasken did not have goggles, but I would suspect that they did try goggles for later gases such as Mustard. Horses were not as susceptible to the poison as men, and the masks for horses were mainly to stop the horses from eating contaminated feed. There is a possibility that the photo you saw was of a set of blinders on the horse, some blinders do look like goggles (blinders are often just leather flaps affixed to the harness to "blind" the horses peripheral vision so that the do not spook at things that happen around them). While we are on the subject of Pferdemaske, I have a cannister that I believe may have been a storrage cannister for the horse mask shown with a Gummi Maske can to show scale.
Best wishes
Gus
zipperheads9
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Is there any area of German stuff you do not have/ Nice piece .
I am guessing ,as the horse people can correct me . Is a Horse not a little fussy about putting things really close to it's eyes .
Yes I know about Blinders but they don't cover the eye that close .
Is the Maske in the can gus? As I would love to see what they look like.
Mark
I am guessing ,as the horse people can correct me . Is a Horse not a little fussy about putting things really close to it's eyes .
Yes I know about Blinders but they don't cover the eye that close .
Is the Maske in the can gus? As I would love to see what they look like.
Mark
Hi Zipper,
Gus has of everything, a little. Like you knows, mainly looking at the avatar of Gus, he almost always uses a gas mask. There is little time behind, Gus hurt the nose in conditions until today not convincingly cleared. The nose of Gus was enormous, then he needed to buy a horse's gas mask , being able to him like this to continue with his disguise...
Otto :lol:
Gus has of everything, a little. Like you knows, mainly looking at the avatar of Gus, he almost always uses a gas mask. There is little time behind, Gus hurt the nose in conditions until today not convincingly cleared. The nose of Gus was enormous, then he needed to buy a horse's gas mask , being able to him like this to continue with his disguise...
Otto :lol:
Hey Mark,zipperheads9 said:Is there any area of German stuff you do not have/ Nice piece .
I am guessing ,as the horse people can correct me . Is a Horse not a little fussy about putting things really close to it's eyes .
Yes I know about Blinders but they don't cover the eye that close .
Is the Maske in the can gus? As I would love to see what they look like.
Mark
I have a limited collection of German items, as I do not specialize in German, I am not 100% sure the can is a Pferdemaske can, I bought it of German fleabay years ago for next to nothing, I have seen one photo showing the can, but it was difficult to tell anything more than size.
One can cover the eyes of some horsesn the blinders used on race horses do look somewhat like goggles.
Sorry Mark, the mask is not in the can,
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zipperheads9
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I know you colect any and all Ww1 stuff that catches your fancy .I ahave read about horses and gas a little as Gas is a subject i read as much as possible on. I will have to check with a couple of Canadian WW1 guru types for pics of any Horse Mask pics as i do not remember any reading or veterans talking about it.
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zipperheads9
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Tha Horse Masks only covered the nose and lower snout . the horse's eyes could stand the reactons better than human's .this was drawn from a chemical book by a US Ghemical Ufficer from 1937 .
Mark
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