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Melbourne Royal
Book, SANDS AND MCDOUGALL, Catalogue of Mr. C.B. Fisher's Stud Herd of Shorthorns, 1878
... Catalogue of Mr. C.B. Fisher's Stud Herd of Shorthorns...stud herd...] CATALGOUE / OF THE / PURE STUD HERD / OF / SHORTHORNS...Shorthorns cattle Fisher CB Fisher stud herd herd book ...A small book, bound in a purple material (possibly leather) with gold-print text in the cover. It has 350 pages with black printed text.[cover] CATALOGUE / OF / MR. C. B. FISHER'S / STUD HEARD / OF / SHORTHORNS / FOR SALE AT WOODLANDS / 4TH NUBEMBER 1878 / [cover page] CATALGOUE / OF THE / PURE STUD HERD / OF / SHORTHORNS / THE PROPERTY OF / MR. C. B. FISHER, / TO BE / SOLD BY PUBLIC AUCTION, / AT / WOODLANDS ESTATE, / 14 Miles from Melbourne, / On MONDAY, 4th November, 1878, / AT ELEVENT O'CLOCK / RICHARD GIBSON & CO., / POWERS, RUTHERFORD & CO., / Agents / MELBOURNE: / SANDS & MCDOUGALL, PRITNERS, COLLINS STREET WEST. / 1878 /shorthorns, cattle, fisher, cb fisher, stud herd, herd book -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Stocks for Riding Boots, Late 1800's to early 1900's
These wooden trees for riding stocks are a concept that was brought to early colonial days from "mother" England. Gentle folk of wealth and status used these trees from early 1800's to keep and maintain their riding boots in their correct form. This form of maintaining the tall riding boot structure was maintained in Australia by the rural "elite" both on cattle properties and smaller cattle stations in the early 1900's. Good riding boots were a status symbol in rural and outback Australia. The riding stocks "wooden trees" are very significant in the Kiewa Valley because they were used by members of some of the original grazing cattle families to settle there. Both cattle and sheep properties occupied large areas of the Kiewa Valley and they also herded their flock and herd on the Bogong High Plains region. These stocks and boots were worn by Fred Roper whose great grand daughter donated them to KVHS. Therefore these boots and stocks would date from 1880's to 1920's and are a good representation of the style of boots worn during this period. This pair of wooden stocks for riding boots trees has been manufactured to a very high standard. Each of the four boot tree parts fit snugly together and maintain their form, and that of the boot that they occupy. The groove channels and foot forms (tongue and groove) are exact and once snapped together become very solid. There is a brass ring, attached by a small brass "peg" on each of the thin "sliding" middle uprights. See KVHS 0177 - Riding boots.On top "L" (for left boot), "R" (for right boot)horse. country. leather. gaiters. high plains. grazing. cattlemen. laces. studs. stocks. roper family. bogong high plains. -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Gaiters Riding, Late 19th Century
These gaiters where used circa 1800's to mid 1900's, by horse riders "cattle men" to protect their shins and long trousers against wear and tear. They were used rather than having expensive boots damaged. Gaiters were a lot easier to fasten and clean than boots. They were used in the Kiewa Valley and the High Plains grazing areas.These gaiters were part of a cattleman's "out fit". The Gaiters were easily cleaned and did away with expensive riding boots. They were used throughout the valley and high plains areas both by horse riders herding cattle and the recreational rider of both sexes. After the 1950s more recreational riders from Melbourne ventured onto the high plains and not so rugged mountain slopes. Small settlements such as Mount Beauty, Bogong village and Falls Creek provided a secure backdrop for short term horse back adventures. The increasing pressure of city life provided a greater flow of stressed out city dweller to find the peace and quiet that city life does not have. Horse riding preceded the modern trail bikes and other recreational vehicles of the late 1900s. Thick leather tapered gaiters with six metal Hooks and Leather lacing through metal eyelets. All bar two eyelets have a metal reinforced punch holes. Left gaiter missing most of lacing.horse, country, leather, gaiters, high, grazing, cattlemen, laces, studs