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    Hoof pick - CW Specific?

    Gentlemen, The folding hoof pick that Ken Knopp pictures on page 150 of 'Conf. Saddles and Horse eqpt' is listed as 'patented hoof pick and hammer'.

    My question: Is/was this item a Civil War specific item? Or was it made before and continually used?

    The reason I ask, is that I have found one in an antique shop in jolly old England. The patina and pitting on it gives it enough age to be from the period. It is unmarked but is identical to one I bought from Border States.

    It is not a great deal of money (less that $40!) but I don't want to buy it if it isn't a CW specific relic....
    Last edited by English Doc; 09-22-2009, 11:44 AM. Reason: Poor Grammar
    [FONT="Georgia"][B][I][U]Ken Pettengale[/U][/I][/B][/FONT]
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    Re: Hoof pick - CW Specific?

    Its difficult to say if the hoof pick you've seen in your antique store is a "relic" from the war. There were many different types of hoof picks used during the war. I've seen common gate latches dug from cavalry camps, blacksmith forged, and folding brass hoofpicks.

    The bottom line is that I don't think there is a diffinative civil war era hoof pick. Everything from field expedient to the well made custom brass folding hoofpick.

    John Sweeney

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      Re: Hoof pick - CW Specific?

      If you could post some pics the fellas who study on that sort of minutia can probably give more input. There's a name for that study, Ken has used it....
      Just a private soldier trying to make a difference

      Patrick Peterson
      Old wore out Bugler

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        Re: Hoof pick - CW Specific?

        Originally posted by csabugler View Post
        If you could post some pics the fellas who study on that sort of minutia can probably give more input. There's a name for that study, Ken has used it....

        Lorinery I think?
        [FONT="Georgia"][B][I][U]Ken Pettengale[/U][/I][/B][/FONT]
        [I]Volunteer Company, UK[/I]


        "You may not like what you see, but do not on that account fall into the error of trying to adjust it to suit your own vision of what it ought to have been."
        -- [I][B]George MacDonald Fraser[/B][/I]

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          Re: Hoof pick - CW Specific?

          Originally posted by csabugler View Post
          If you could post some pics the fellas who study on that sort of minutia can probably give more input. There's a name for that study, Ken has used it....

          Lorinery I think?
          [FONT="Georgia"][B][I][U]Ken Pettengale[/U][/I][/B][/FONT]
          [I]Volunteer Company, UK[/I]


          "You may not like what you see, but do not on that account fall into the error of trying to adjust it to suit your own vision of what it ought to have been."
          -- [I][B]George MacDonald Fraser[/B][/I]

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            Re: Hoof pick - CW Specific?

            Here are the pictures..
            [FONT="Georgia"][B][I][U]Ken Pettengale[/U][/I][/B][/FONT]
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            -- [I][B]George MacDonald Fraser[/B][/I]

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              Re: Hoof pick - CW Specific?

              Ken, years ago I bought one of these in an antique store in southern PA it was nickle plated and stamped " C.S. Osborne & Co."
              Jan H.Berger
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