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Me and nmdan went out today i found this, part of saddle Decorations 20171112_105721.webp

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Nice heel plate.
 
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Saddle decoration confuses me. Congrats on the nice heel plate sir.
 
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Late 1800s most likely.
 
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Great find for out west. Ive never seen one in person.
 
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Sweet heel plate! That's definitely a Lone Star! :laughing7:
 
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That version of heelplate (brass, rounded on three sides with the fourth straight OR rounded, a cut-out emblem, and significantly SMALLER than a typical shoe-heel) is from the mid-1860s into the 1880s. It is smaller than a typical shoe heel because it is from a Ladies laceup tall-shoe/boot. The Ladies shoe shown in the photos below was found in an 1880s dump.
 

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I sure miss living in that area........... there was a confederate camp not far south of mesilla...... railroad tracks run real close
 
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Nice relic Jimmy???
 
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