🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Identify the age of this?

[FFD]

I’m looking for any information related to the stirrup I found in a field near Greenville Missouri. Specifically type, how old approximately

 

[pepperj]

Diagnostic Artifacts in Maryland

It's actually not a stirrup. Start thinking of a hanger instead.
Bell, Chandelier, or a hanger rigging in a barn.

 

[FFD]

Diagnostic Artifacts in Maryland

It's actually not a stirrup. Start thinking of a hanger instead.
Bell, Chandelier, or a hanger rigging in a barn.

Do you have an example of this rigging that matches my photo

 

[FFD]

Google lens says this about my item.


No, the item pictured is not a barn rigging item.

• The object is an antique iron horse stirrup, which is a piece of equestrian equipment used as a foot support for a rider when mounted on a horse.
  
  
• Stirrups are part of the saddle assembly, or "tack," used for riding, not typically considered "rigging" in the context of barn operations like lifting or securing heavy objects.
  
  
• The item could be used as rustic farmhouse decor, which might be found in a barn setting, but its original purpose was for horseback riding.

 

[pepperj]

Google lens says this about my item.


No, the item pictured is not a barn rigging item.

• The object is an antique iron horse stirrup, which is a piece of equestrian equipment used as a foot support for a rider when mounted on a horse.
  
  
• Stirrups are part of the saddle assembly, or "tack," used for riding, not typically considered "rigging" in the context of barn operations like lifting or securing heavy objects.
  
  
• The item could be used as rustic farmhouse decor, which might be found in a barn setting, but its original purpose was for horseback riding.

Turn it upside down, take another picture.
I trust the giggle eye to say something else.
It really needs a lot of improvement yet.
When a photo of a 1902 gold piece, and it gives something totally different?
Try the upside down picture.
Better yet show us your actual like photo confirmation of a stirrup.

 

[FFD]

Turn it upside down, take another picture.
I trust the giggle eye to say something else.
It really needs a lot of improvement yet.
When a photo of a 1902 gold piece, and it gives something totally different?
Try the upside down picture.
Better yet show us your actual like photo confirmation of a stirrup.

The upside down photo still came up with the same result.

 

[FFD]

My item and then similar items also considered stirrups

 

[searcher]

@FFD
What are the dimensions?
What is the width of the step?

I also would like to see an example of what @pepperj is talking about.

 

[pepperj]

My item and then similar items also considered stirrups

I saw the reference to those. Casted.
I'm wondering if the one you have broke and a cheap plate was attached or a knock off.

 

[FFD]

I saw the reference to those. Casted.
I'm wondering if the one you have broke and a cheap plate was attached or a knock off.

The one I have seems to be solid and not broken or mended.

 

[AU Seeker]

I'm not sure if it's a stirrup or not....but if it is... there are real stirrups that look a lot like this one that are either old Chinese, Japanese, and maybe Ottoman, all of which are more refined and have a thicker bottom plate, here's some images and links.

Abumi antique horse 1700

Antique Japan stirrup Abumi sand cast iron 1700 Samurai craft

www.japanese-vintage.org

Roseberys London | A Chinese silver-inlaid cast iron stirrupMing/Qing

A Chinese silver-inlaid cast iron stirrupMing/Qing dynasty, 17th centuryWith oval plate and overhead loop, the base inlaid with keyfret pattern,...

www.roseberys.co.uk

https://www.rubylane.com/item/2400257-1609/Antique-19th-century-handmade-Japanese-cast?search=1&t=302b84e7

 

[FFD]

Some photos with measurements of the one I have

 

[searcher]

It is the correct size for a stirrup, and appears to be a stirrup.