Gramp's Hamley
"Gramp's" is a friends dad who's in his mid eighties. He traded for this Hamley saddle back in the fifties and used it until he quit riding about 20 years ago. It suffered from bad neglect until his kids asked me to clean it up for his birthday. It's too beat up to be used without major repairs and it's quite small so i got it looking good and now it sits in his front room.
Thanks Bruce, when I get some spare time I'll have to look it up.
Sandy, Denise, if I find anything else out about the saddle I'll let you all know.
I guess the day they gave it to him turned into a big story day and Gramps had a fine time reliving his younger days.
I do know he got the saddle in a three way trade, a Winchester 30-30 from Gramps to his younger brother for what they called a fancy Mexican saddle which was then traded for the Hamley to an outfitter who was working on Cedar Mo