Numero oggetto
2022/146
Descrizione
A housen is a piece of decoration attached to the top of a horse's collar. This is a plain, flat, leather housen with a series of holes along the lower edge, and two holes in the centre. There are two rows on stitch holes along the top edge. The front is inscribed 'J L' and 'J L', one on each side. J L was likely the owner's initals. The housen is splashed with green paint.
Descrizione fisica
1 housen: leather
Storico archivio
Pre-MERL - [document by Bob Powell] 'Housen' donation to MERL' As a young horseman in the Pinchbeck area near Spalding, Lincolnshire, Fred Harlock fancied the two 'housen' with inscribed fronts. In due course Fred was given the housen which he treasured, and passed on to the donor at the end of the 1980s.
Data
1800-01-01 - 1824-12-31
Periodo di produzione
Early-nineteenth century
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