June 19, 2012
… ha ha ha … get it?!
Someone at the Kentucky Horse Park’s International Museum of the Horse posted photos on their Facebook page (using the same title that I borrowed above), of a whole bunch of beautiful horse-themed stamps in the museum’s collection.
You can scroll through the photos here. For our (usually-carriage-related) purposes, see especially the colorful Mongolian stamps at the top of the second of the eight photos.
June 18, 2012
Are you ready for the answers to our carriage-parts quiz?
I’m re-posting all the photos here, in the order that matches the order of their names, which I shared in Friday’s post. See the photo captions for the correct terms.
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according to an article on traditions in turnout (the August 2011 issue of The Carriage Journal), “Cockades were originally used as brooches to pin up the brims of tricorne and bicorne hats…. When people started wearing top hats, they dispensed with cockades themselves but continued to decorate their servants’ hats with them. …”
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finials, like this bird, are sometimes found on the corners of sleigh dashboards
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this vehicle features a French platform spring
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this spring is being held up by a gallows bracket
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“imperials” were boxes for luggage and were carried on the roof of a coach
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according to Berkebile’s Carriage Terminology, a scroll spring is a steel spring with one or both ends bent in the shape of a scroll (C-springs were originally called scroll springs)
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this vehicle features a side-bar spring
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according to Berkebile’s Carriage Terminology: a side bar (the wooden bar at the center of the photo) is “a variety of wooden side-spring, of American invention, applied principally to Road Wagons … It commonly consists of two elastic wooden bars, close to and parallel with the body, to which the latter is directly attached; the ends of the side-springs are connected with two half-springs which rest of the axles”
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an example of a Tilbury spring
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June 17, 2012
… and our final three quiz photos:
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I’ll have the answers in tomorrow’s post!
June 16, 2012
Continuing from yesterday …
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June 15, 2012
Several years ago, at the 2009 CAA Learning Weekend, association members in attendance were treated to a carriage-parts scavenger hunt of sorts. Each participant was given a list of twenty-five carriage parts or carriage-related items, and then they were set loose in the Florida Carriage Museum … first to find the twenty-five numbered items among the huge collection and then to try to match each numbered item to its correct, corresponding term on the list.
I went through the museum (with a cheat sheet!) and took photos of each item, and we published a print version of the “carriage parts quiz” in the March 2009 issue of The Carriage Journal.
While scouting around for something to put on the blog today and for the upcoming weekend, I thought it might be fun to resurrect some of these quiz items.
Here, in alphabetical order, are the items featured in the photos I’ll be posting on the blog, today through Sunday: 1) cockade, 2) finial, 3) French platform spring, 4) gallows bracket, 5) imperial, 6) scroll spring, 7) side bar spring, 8) side bar, and 9) Tilbury spring.
I’ll share three photos in each post (today through Sunday), and you can try to match them up with the correct terms. I’ll give you answers on Monday. Have fun!
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The Slower Road 