Horse Shoes

Bracy Clark, 7th April, 1771-1860 was the son of a Quaker and came from Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire. He was a fellow of the Linnaean Society, a member of the Institute of France and a friend of Vial de Sainbel. He was a respected veterinary and wrote about 20 papers

These tiny horse shoes about an inch across where made for myself and my sister by a blacksmith somewhere in the region of Blackpool Sands Bay, near Dartmouth, Dorset.  My father came from a renown family in Dorset called the Burts and he knew and loved Dorset. I recall on

Horse shoe from Mali age unknown, made from construction metal. This is not unusual in mali, noting is wasted. and you can see the bubbly edge of the construction metal.

An oval shoe from the forge of Peter Ibbitson Walton on the Hill, Surrey

I found this on the way to Exmoor. it has quite some age on it. At least 100 years. A hand made shoe.

These are a collection racing plates belonging to Lord Rosebery. They were recently found at The Durdans, (The house not the stables.)  The care and attention to which each one has been mounted on pink is very touching. Lord Rosebery’s colours were pink and primrose.   His family name include Primrose. 

Circular horse shoe providing support all round, from the forge of Peter Ibbitson, Walton on the Hill. Round shoes were used by the famouse dick Turpin, beacuse then his hoof prints were dfficult to folow as you coud not work out which way he was going.  

Old horse shoe hand made probably C18th. designed for a horse with a one sided action  

These plates were found in books on practical farriery. This one plate was found by Norman Comben and this is a copy. It shows the wide range of different shoes for a variety of lameness and other problems. Nothing much has changed, they show hock support shoes, and pedal bone

The Lawn boots were made of leather and used when the horses pulled the lawn mowers. Of course indents caused by the iron shoes would have ruined the lawn and so these boots were available to put on the ponies feet and protect the lawn. There is an example of