Antique Old Used "Hess & Hopkins" Western Parade Saddle

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This old saddle does not have the "Hess & Hopkins" makers mark on it, but it does have the unique, distinct signature tooling pattern that they used on their saddles. I have only seen this particular tooling pattern used on the Hess & Hopkins saddles. Usually Hess & Hopkins put their stamp on the front part of their hard seat saddles, but seeing as this one has a padded seat - perhaps that is why it is not marked. It does however have the number 1072 on the skirt underneath the left fender. This is a heavy saddle with a 15" - 15 1/4" seat, measured from the base of the horn to the top of the cantle. The matching (same tooling) tapaderos are 13 1/2" long. The breastplate does not have any tooling on it and it is not original to the saddle, but it does have the same silver spots/dots. It is the type of breastplate that simply looped over the horses neck and attached to the bottom of the girth. The biggest flaw with this saddle is that on the majority of the exterior leather of the skirts and fenders there is a lot of surface cracking of the leather. I have tried to give the viewer a good idea of this in the pictures. The leather of the tapaderos and the wide stirrup leathers is in much better shape. Aside from the appearence of the exterior leather, this saddle is sound. It is ready to go to use. It needs nothing presently to make read more

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