1933 Hamley Saddle Restoration

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On 2/18/2024 at 10:40 AM, Msofun said:

I’m in the same boat with a child saddle code on tag but don’t know the maker. Left at my mom’s stable and we used it on my son’s pony. Stirrup is wired together on one and enclosed in leather. I was leading my little nephew with it one a full sized horse when he kicked and the horse went straight up. Glad I was leading. He thought it was fun and wanted to do it again! Lol. That’s when I found the sharp end of the twisted wire on the stirrup and never used it again. Read up on codes and determined it’s a 1933 but model below is 33055   No makers name that I can find. Any ideas? Friend says it’s her son’s and wants it now years and years later and I told her I would give it to her.  Rather her grandchildren enjoy it and mine will not   She thought it was Simco or Billy Cook? Any help? Good condition and told her stirrup would need replacing. I hate to give it away but I have another priceless one my mom’s best friend had when her dad had Tennessee Walkers. They were born in 1927! Fully restored. 

Do you have a picture of the child's saddle? Simco and bona Allen both used a daisy stamp in the tooling or on the horn ( sometimes) but both had a different number of petals.. theres alot of old tricks to identify the old unmarked saddles