Originally Posted by
ThistleDown
The cantle is not really as unusual as you think. The little 'pull tabs' are found on many 19C silver-mounted sporrans. They were usually round protrusions, and not quite as nose-like as this one, perhaps, but still there are examples in the centuries of design craftsmanship and before these last few years of computer-generated fashion.
Not familiar with a design like that on a vintage cantle, with the stuck-on looking portions. (Stuck on because they're a different level/height, such as would be made in the old days with a separate sheet of metal soldered on.)
Ditto the 3D deer head stuck on in the middle.
Not only those things, but the designs overall look clip-art-like (numerous unrelated designs placed here and there).
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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