Horseshoe

This is a ‘hunter shoe’ – a horseshoe for a hunting horse – and is therefore designed to cope with travelling quickly over soft ground. This is a front shoe. It is fullered all the way round, with six nail holes. It was made by H. J. W. Duke of Nether Wallop, Hampshire, circa 1945–6, and is part of a large collection of traditional craft products acquired from the British Council in 1960.