🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Can anyone date this horse shoe?

[JustOneMorePlug]

Found this horseshoe on a friend’s property dating back to the 1800s. I cleaned it up with electrolysis and preserved it. It has six nail holes and seems to be hand forged. Can anyone give me more info on it? Thanks for looking!

 

[creskol]

The uniform fullers (the groove in the shoe where nail heads are seated) is a key indicator of a machine-made shoe, so it is no earlier than the mid 1850's. Beyond that, there is no real way to pinpoint a date that I am aware of.

 

[JustOneMorePlug]

The uniform fullers (the groove in the shoe where nail heads are seated) is a key indicator of a machine-made shoe, so it is no earlier than the mid 1850's. Beyond that, there is no real way to pinpoint a date that I am aware of.

Thanks for the info!

 

[TicTac Coins]

I'd say 19th century, anyways.

 

[russau]

Interesting shoe ! I don't have any idea on it's age BUT I'd do a research on the property to help narrow it down some more . and some one knows who manufactured that type / style of shoe . This info could help you ! To me ,it does look like a keeper to hang up over your door !

 

[JustOneMorePlug]

Interesting shoe ! I don't have any idea on it's age BUT I'd do a research on the property to help narrow it down some more . and some one knows who manufactured that type / style of shoe . This info could help you ! To me ,it does look like a keeper to hang up over your door !

The property is on a tract that was farmed until the 1950s. A mid-1800s map shows a structure on the opposite side of the property from where it was found. I have thoroughly searched that mapped location but haven’t recovered much. There are no indications of any other structures on the property, even on later maps.
However, I did discover a concentrated pile of bricks in another area, along with numerous early-1800s relics including flat buttons, musket balls, buckles, echelon plates and this horse shoe. Theres no telling!