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	<title>The Antique Horse</title>
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		<title>Young Lady&#8217;s Equestrian Manual</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to the work of the Gutenberg Project I have been reading &#8220;The Young Lady&#8217;s Equestrian Manual&#8221; , an anonymous 19th Century publication, now available for all to read at http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29248/29248-h/29248-h.htm. The book starts : &#8220;The following pages contain a Treatise on the Art of Riding on Horseback, for Ladies, which originally appeared in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lacebark Whip from Jamaica</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I bought one of these whips years ago at the sale of the contents of Dr Potter&#8217;s Museum of Curiosities at Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall. It was an extraordinary sale, full of natural history specimens and ethnographic objects from around the world as well as bizarre taxidermy tableaus &#8211; read more &#038; see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weald and Downland Museum</title>
		<link>http://www.sportingcollection.com/blog/?p=637</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Horse Bits]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[harrow]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shire]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Weald &#038; Downland Museum near Chichester in Sussex is a fantastic place. Not only are there over forty rescued and reconstructed buildings, they also run courses teaching traditional skills and crafts &#8211; everything from making natural dyes, through polelathing or coppice management to ploughing . It was probably predictable that the heavy horse driving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saddle Labels</title>
		<link>http://www.sportingcollection.com/blog/?p=564</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[saddles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a framed collection saddle labels that I bought last autumn. I guess that it came from a saddler&#8217;s shop and the labels came from old or broken saddles. They make fascinating reading and I couldn&#8217;t resist researching some of the makers a little. Running from left to right and top row to bottom the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spurs on Film</title>
		<link>http://www.sportingcollection.com/blog/?p=553</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Spurs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Borzage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cowboy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[movie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wester]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Any film that starts with the hero pawning his rather smart California spurs for a drink has got to be worth watching. The film in question is &#8220;The Pilgrim&#8221; a 1916 short film starring and directed by Frank Borzage. Borzage (1894 &#8211; 1962) later became famous as a director of films such as &#8220;Moonrise&#8221; I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hunting Whips &amp; Crops for men or women</title>
		<link>http://www.sportingcollection.com/blog/?p=540</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hunting whips or crops are generally sold as &#8220;ladies&#8221; or &#8220;gents&#8221;. Indeed I have catalogues from the 1920&#8242;s &#038; 30&#8242;s which sell them as such. From time to time I am asked what the difference is between them. I guess it&#8217;s a matter of size &#8211; most men are larger than most women, so men&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>German Military Bridle</title>
		<link>http://www.sportingcollection.com/blog/?p=514</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Military horse]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[plume]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just received a really nice email from someone seeking information about a German military bridle. I&#8217;m hopelessly ignorant about military equipment, so I thought I&#8217;d throw the question open to those who are far more knowledgeable on the subject. &#8220;My name is Nick and I live in Oklahoma City, U.S. I have recently obtained [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bristol M Shed Museum</title>
		<link>http://www.sportingcollection.com/blog/?p=498</link>
		<comments>http://www.sportingcollection.com/blog/?p=498#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 12:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Horse Bits]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend we went to Bristol Harbour Festival and, as always , had an excellent time. Good food, drink, music, and surprisingly weather, even the bus journey home was enlivened by a child spilling a box of brightly coloured beads and the frantic dash to retrieve them all as they rolled around the floor of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Silver Whip Revisited</title>
		<link>http://www.sportingcollection.com/blog/?p=479</link>
		<comments>http://www.sportingcollection.com/blog/?p=479#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Antique Whips]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Empress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geissel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scourge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[silver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vienna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[whip]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A while ago I posted pictures of this whip on my facebook page. I was hoping that someone could identify it, but didn&#8217;t have any luck. I bought the whip at auction with some silver filigree buttons. A visit to the V &#038; A last year identified the buttons as 19th century &#038; German but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spurs &amp; Birds</title>
		<link>http://www.sportingcollection.com/blog/?p=461</link>
		<comments>http://www.sportingcollection.com/blog/?p=461#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 21:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Military horse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spurs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[dress]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve spent far too much of today contemplating a spur. I&#8217;ve no idea of its provenance, I bought it at auction with a load of silver plated dinnerware. Eagles aren&#8217;t uncommon in military spurs, there&#8217;s a thriving trade in reproduction eagle headed confederate officers&#8217; spurs, but unsurprisingly no crowns there. There is a reference to [...]]]></description>
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