Horseshoe

This corrective horseshoe, for a cart horse, is intended to prevent ‘knocking’ –when the horse strikes the inside of one leg with another. The shoe has eight nail holes, and a long curved wing which loops over the front of the hoof. It was made by H. J. W. Duke of Nether Wallop, Hampshire, circa 1945–6, and is part of a large collection of traditional craft products acquired from the British Counc…