✅ SOLVED how old is this??

[jbbj]

I found a horse shoe today how old is this and it still has the nails in it too and its bent some too.

 

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[duggap]

Gosh that is a hard one. Those shoes will set up plenty of rust in just a few months in the field. It is not at all uncommon to find them with nails in them. Let the other items you are finding help you establish a date range. Regards.

 

[jbbj]

I found this not to far from it...and I know the horse shoe was abt 11" deep

 

[atprolen]

Not nowing where you found makes it hard in northern michigan there are a LOT of old rail road spurs from logging check with your local historical society and ask for map of these tracks in my area the main track for people was taken out in 1937 the logging was done way before that the historical society gave me pictures of horses pulling lumber cars !! And I to have found shoes and pieces of track and 4 inch spikes. Half my fun is looking at the history after the hunt. Good luck a lot of the scrap I bring back is worthless but the history makes its value. Good luck on your search !!!

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[jbbj]

I did find maps from 1866 when the railroad was put in but this is prob half mile away from where they built it

 

[BosnMate]

Regarding the horse shoe. It's for a hind foot, it has a toe grab and heel caulks called "corks." You are in NY where there is ice and snow, so I really don't know, but what they were doing required the horse to have traction, possibly a saddle horse on ice. More likely it was a work animal. You say it was found in the woods so my guess is it might have been skidding logs. The way the one heel is bent down, because it is a rear shoe, it looks to me like they figured they could get away with leaving a little heel sticking out at the back of the hoof, and the horse got it's foot in a spot that the shoe was hung up, and in the resulting wreck the horse pulled the shoe. The nails are soft iron, and will usually rust away, but that doesn't always hold true either. My best guess as to age without getting to look at the shoe more closely, I think toe grabs that were put on the shoe by the horseshoer went away by the late '60's, at least any toe grabs on shoes I did out west were cast onto horse shoes that were a completely different brand and style than yours. In order to tell if the toe grab was added by a blacksmith/shoer with a forge, clean the rust from around the base of the grab, and see if you can see a fine line of brass where it was braised onto the shoe. That would give the shoe a possible date back to the late 60's or before. Otherwise it's near impossible to date horse shoes, and as far as that goes, toe grabs could have been used back east a lot longer than the area of the west I was working, so my date could be all wet.

 

[HutSiteDigger]

If i had to bet i would say early 1900s..

 

[jbbj]

Thank you very much how do I clean off the rust on it??

 

[creskol]

If i had to bet i would say early 1900s..

My knowledge about horse related stuff is obviously quite limited, so I am anxious to learn what criteria you used to base this statement?

 

[Mekong Mike]

my first find was big horseshoe with nails still in it. it was in a field in england where they used big horses to farm with. It had toe grabs.

I have a question. Are horse shoes used for oxen and other work animals ?

 

[mick56]

Oxen wore shoes, too, they were two piece shoes.

 

[JOHUNT]

I'm gonna say mid 1900's. I have many of them from this area. Keep searchin'. Good luck

 

[jbbj]

So they thought bending the shoe would make the horse have more traction? Sounds like that would hurt walking. And thank you every one for helping.

 

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piece of narrow gauge rail road track