More shoes from Mr. Bob Armstrongs collection of farriery/blacksmith tools.

This is the 11th thread in the "Tool Collection" series.

If commenting on some of the shoes or tools, you might want to refer to the posting number rather than quoting the photographs. That way we don't make the threads too laden with duplicate photos.

Cheers,

Mark

Old, weighted walking horse shoe. I believe someone else had posted a similar shoe in another thread recently.

What struck me about this one is the banding. It seems to be facing the wrong way. I understand a band that would wrap around the dorsal wall to keep the package on, but this band was clearly installed in a way that keeps the band oriented in the anterior/posterior plane. Not sure how the band was used or what it was attached to in this configuration.

There are two set-screws in the back of the shoe that hold the shoe onto the weight piece. The top of the weighted container is cut from a holding barrel of some kind.

This is a very interesting, manufactured, toe-clipped shoe! I've seen another that is similar but I think this one adds a new trick or two.

I believe the fullering is filled with a rope material. Perhaps to combine the benefits of traction plus concussion reduction. The farrier 'sprinkled' a coating of traction material (borium?) over the rope.

The heels are onioned and hollowed out to make containment space for additional packing material. The packing looks like it may have been molten tar (like blacktop tar?) that is poured into the hollows of the heel.

There are small pins thru the shoe at the web edges that appear to have been installed to hold the molten tar packing in place once the tar cooled into a solid consistency.

Some of the design aspects remind me a bit of the new EDSS PLR shoe. Dropped breakover on the sides with recessed nailing, wider heels. Of course, minus the squared up toes.

This shoe is marked "Patent June 1898". on the inside of the lateral web.

I could be wrong but I think it's just how someone attached the band for storage. Other than that, they look like any other set of bands.

Old rubber/leather, bonded shoe pad from the "Straw" company in Chicago? Don't know much about this.

Saddlebred shoe with turned calks. Big fisheyes.

That's all for collection #11.

Next up, some more tools. I'll try to find time tonight.

Enjoy!

Mark