Side Saddles

The fabulously talented John Leech, who completed in his lifetime an extraordinary amount of illustrative art work. He was a regular contributor to the London Illustrated News. He did all the illustrations for Surtees. and this one is of Rotten Row and a young man turning to his mother perhaps and saying he would rather

I found this one at Timberley and Shorland’s sale and sadly did not buy it. It is old, around the 1900 I would think is good condition and brown which is unusual. 

This brief history is a tribute to elegance, to the women who learnt to aspire to its greatest heights, and to the men who lived in the thin air at its summit. Art is an illusion; it is our response to creation. Art is the manifestation of mankind’s desire to leave his own mark in

This costume is French and dated 1825. I found it in Page 126 of Cavaliers Amazone.  I then had a copy of the costume mde and rode Skate side-saddle in the costume. Mine was made of fine wool from Tudor Taylors. The French one is probably fine linen mixed with silk.         

Mayhew Side Saddle, 1930s This saddle measures 15 inches from the withers to the cantle. The Mayhew saddle is padded higher on the left than the right to accommodate the right leg. It is easy to girth up by the rider as there is no second strap holding down the right-hand flap. It has a

Side-saddle with a quilted panel possibly dated around the 1870’s. It has a leaping head and so it is a very early example. The leaping head or third lower pommel was around from about the 1830’s. This saddle was purchased in the 1960’s from a Mr Allsop. It was then restored by Keith Luxford. It