Horseshoe

This horseshoe is for the front foot of a cart horse. It has a ‘caulk’, or ‘caulkin’, (a protrusion at the heel or toe of a shoe which provides traction) at the end of one wing, and another running across the toe of the shoe. The shoe has eight nail holes. 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 acquire…