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Date: | Mon, 21 Nov 2005 18:48:42 -0500 |
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Horseshoes!!
Glad to see some interest in horseshoes. I do not have much to add to Jeff's
discussion without seeing the horseshoes. They do appear to have been machine
made in a style that was popular at the Phoenix Horse Shoe Company founded in
1884 with factories in Poughkeepsie, NY and Joliet, Illinois. By the late 1890s
they were one of the largest manufactures of horseshoes in the country over
taking the Burden Iron Works of Troy, NY. Henry Burden's first Patent for a
horseshoe making machine was in 1835 but it was not until he received a
contract to supply large numbers horseshoes during the civil war did their use
become popular.
I will be at the SHA meeting in Sacramento and would be happy to look at any
horse, mule, donkey or ox shoes that will fit in your suitcase.
Rick Morris
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