| Shoebox Saddlery History |
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| Identifying tack made by Shoebox Saddlery |
It is tricky to sign work that is so small and over the years I’ve attempted it a number of various ways. I am sure I have missed a few methods from the early days, if you have something by me that you would like to share, I would love to update this page!
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| Early Years |
Saddles only would have been signed Corinne Herb with the last two digits in the year (so ’94 for 1994) in thin black marker--English ones under one of the saddle flaps, Western ones under a fender. Bridles and accessories weren’t, though I still tried with a very few of them. They just weren’t legible enough, so I gave up.
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fender signature
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fender signature |
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Later I tried out a few different ideas, one of them being creating a saddle plate by scratching info onto an oval metal plate just under the saddle flap on either side. It mimics some real horse manufacturers’ methods. I started in 2000 to number each English saddle once I started using a cast resin tree, all saddles earlier are not numbered. The drawing shows two versions, by 2001 the month created was no longer added. In 2003, I printed the information still in the oval format. Later that year I started using leather stamps so that I could directly imprint the leather for more permanence.
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ovals
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saddle oval |
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saddle oval
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saddle oval |
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