English leather strap with a horse brass.

Collection type: Object
Description: English leather strap with a horse brass.
Long description: There are four holes in the leather that suggest there could have been an additional horse brass above this that has become detached.
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Cultural groups: English
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Roadnight Carter
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1940
Date collected: By 1940
Acquisition information: Purchased: 1940
Materials and processes: Material Brass Metal, Material Animal Leather Skin, Process Stitched
Dimensions: Length: max 327 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1940.9.2B
Research and responses: Research by Julian Parker, Website Editor of the Regional Furniture Society, suggests that the vendor of this object was likely to be Walter Roadnight Carter, who appears several times in the British Newspaper Archive and FindMyPast. Born 28 December 1868 in Marlow, he was at first, and as late as 1911, a Master Butcher. During WW1 he set up at 5 Pembroke Street St Aldates Oxford, as an antique and furniture dealer. There are newspaper advertisements offering to buy antiques at his Antique Furniture Galleries at 5 Pembroke Street in The Oxford Times and The Buckinghamshire Herald between 1919 and 1926. He is recorded as a furniture dealer living in Oxford Road Woodstock in 1939. He died in 1958. Roadnight Carter is also listed as the vendor of a Windsor chair sold in 1917 to an unidentified buyer and now located in the National Trust property Wordsworth House in Cockermouth, Cumbria.

Search terms: Animal Gear, Ornament, Horse Accessory

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