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  • jbcherry - Wednesday, February 10, 2016 at 3:47:26 PM
    This one is cast, not stamped :)
  • jbcherry - Wednesday, February 10, 2016 at 3:43:23 PM
    An interesting 'hybrid' cast horse soldered to a pressed border
  • jbcherry - Wednesday, February 10, 2016 at 3:41:59 PM
    An interesting 'hybrid' cast horse in pressed border, would be informative to see the back of this one.
  • Jamesblair - Monday, February 8, 2016 at 1:37:54 AM
    Census of 1911 lists William Llewellyn saddler and harness maker of Blue School Street Hereford, aged 58.
  • jbcherry - Friday, February 5, 2016 at 4:30:19 PM
    It is probable that this has been made with the same punch as was used to do the top of the tulip on 5984, though I would need to see the two side by side to be certain.
  • jbcherry - Friday, February 5, 2016 at 4:23:47 PM
    Interesting, not stamped, either cast from a crude pattern or "hand cut" from a very rough piece of sheet metal.
  • jbcherry - Friday, February 5, 2016 at 4:16:50 PM
    This is the same brass as in picture 5714
  • jbcherry - Friday, February 5, 2016 at 4:13:46 PM
    I suspect this is "hand cut" rather than stamped
  • Jamesblair - Friday, January 22, 2016 at 2:01:32 AM
    Interesting - I have not seen a white metal Royalty before. My own research into white metal brasses indicates that they had a variety of uses: in coastal areas where they were more resistant to salt air than yellow brass; some canal boatmen favoured them, and Gypsies preferred white metal harness decorations. It is said that they were easier to keep clean than brass where the harness was almost permanently exposed to the elements.
  • jbcherry - Thursday, January 21, 2016 at 9:48:20 AM
    Seeing this I think I will have to extend my definition of "hand cut" to "those brasses that have been cut from sheet by saw, drill, file OR CHISEL, without the use of casting or press tools. :)