April 23, 2024
1940 Visalia Stock Saddle Company Letterhead and Letter Regarding Saddles
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Hard to find 1940 dated letter from Visalia Stock Saddle Company, San Francisco to an interested customer inquiring about a custom saddle. Great bucking bronc vignette at top and signed by Visalia's manager at bottom.Measures 10.5" x 8.5" Shipping combined on like sized items.History:The Visalia Stock Saddle Company saw its beginning in the year of 1870 with David E. Walker better known as D. E. Walker. The Visalia Style Stock Saddle was the invention of Juan Maratrel who created the very first Visalia Stock Saddle Tree, and D. E. Walker having been a saddle maker bought Juan Maratrel's shop in 1870.After the purchase D. E. Walker continued to have these saddle trees made with Ricardo Mattley exclusively for the next 20+ years for the Visalia Stock Saddle Company. At the time D. E. Walker bought the shop from Juan Maratrel he had a partner named Henry Shuham and from 1870 through 1877 the men ran the Visalia Stock Saddle Company as a partnership. It appears between the years of 1877 and 1879 D. E. Walker had his own Saddlery and Harness Company in Visalia, CA where he continued to produce a Visalia Stock Style Saddle.By 1879 D. E. Walker had bought all of the interests in the Visalia Stock Saddle Company from Henry Shuham, and continued to run the Company as the sole owner until 1887 when he sells half of the business to Wade and
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