Old Style Saddles

D. R. Schrader Custom Saddles

Post Office Box 70 Darby MT 59829

406-821-0152

Old Style Saddles

Your D. R. Schrader custom saddle can be built to authentic styles, from 1850s to 1920s. Included here are specialty saddles, such as Mountain Man, 1870s Drover, even authentic Pony Express saddles. Matching period accessories are available.

Any old style saddle can be built on mule or horse bar trees. Base price for Old Style saddles is $2500.00. See the Price List page for option prices.

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	1. 1880s Stock Saddle. Hand tooled border. Half seat with old style Cheyenne roll cantle. To see more and larger pictures of this saddle, click here.
	2. 1890s Stock Saddle. Hand tooled. Loop seat with old style Cheyenne roll cantle. To see more and larger pictures of this saddle, click here.
	3. 1880s Stock Saddle. Hand carved and tooled border. Hand engraved brass conchos and buckles. To see more and larger pictures of this saddle, click here. For more information or questions, please call or Email.
	4. Northwest Montana Saddle. This saddle was copied from an original made here in Montana , owned by Elmer MacGregor. The saddle is ¾ rigged with no rear cincha. It is tooled in an old style double basket stamp pattern with meander style border. It is finished in a dark brown amber antique color, and has all brass hardware. The saddle features fitted built-on saddlebags; loop seat and old style stirrup leathers. The saddle looks like a 1910 era saddle but has modern bars on the hand-made rawhide covered tree, as well as other up-to-date features such as the Blevins buckles for stirrup adjustment. Matching Old Style headstall and breast collar were also built to match this saddle. To see more and larger pictures of this saddle, click here.
	5. Old Style A-fork with dark finish. Late 1800s – early 1900s period A-fork loop seat. Antiqued dark finish, all brass hardware. Built on Quarter horse bars. Accessories built: Old Time headstall, breast collar, small rear saddle pockets. To see more and larger pictures of this saddle, click here.
	6. Association Style Saddle with Full Basket Stamp. Old style square skirts. Association 14" swell. Loop seat with old style stirrup leathers and fenders. All stainless and silver hardware. Full basket stamp. To see more and larger pictures of this saddle, click here.
	7. 1890s Visalia Style Saddle. Full basket stamp with a meander style border. Brass hardware. Medium oil finish. This saddle has a loop seat, old style stirrup leathers, 5” high cantle with a 1 ½” dish for comfort. It has an authentic old time look but has a modern bar tree with a flat-plate rigging and Blevin’s buckles on the stirrup leathers. To see more and larger pictures of this saddle, click here.
	8. Old Montana Saddle. Loop seat. 4” dally horn. 5 ½” high cantle. All brass hardware. 7/8s double rigged. Built on wide quarterhorse bars. Full basket stamped. Antique finish. To see more and larger pictures of this saddle, click here.
	9. 1880s Style saddle. Built on a 17" seat mule bar tree. To see more and larger pictures of this saddle, click here.
	10. Old Montana (Furstnow copy). Montana on mule bars. 14” swell. 16” seat. 5” high cantle. Old Style horn, stirrup leathers and fender style. This saddle was built on a design copied from an Al Furstnow, Miles City, Montana saddle photographed in Miles City. To see more and larger pictures of this saddle, and the Al Furstnow saddle that was copied, click here.
	11. 1870s Stock saddle. Half seat. Brass oxbow stirrups. All brass hardware. Sam Stagg style rigging. 5" high slot seat cantle. Light in weight but suitable for hard use and roping. Authentic to the period, saddle has square skirts, Old Style stirrup leathers, Morgan style slots in the bars for the stirrup leathers. Shows exposed hand-laced rawhide in the swell and cantle areas. To see more and larger pictures of this saddle, click here.
	12. Old Time Montana Saddle. Old style Montana tree. 5 1/2" cantle. Meander boarder. All brass hardware. Staple pouch on cantle. To see more and larger pictures of this saddle, click here.
	13. Old Time Slick Fork (A-fork). Outfitter bars. 16” seat. 5” cantle. 3” high horn with 4” cap. Full basket stamp with double stamped border. Medium oil finish. All brass hardware including old style conchos and brass bound oak 4” stirrups. Rigged at 7/8s double. Old style stirrup leathers. 4-button style jockeys. Excellent all-round working and trail saddle. To see more and larger pictures of this saddle, click here.
	Following are some examples of Old Style style saddles built over the years. Click on photo to enlarge (sorry, multiple high-resolution photos are not available for these saddles).
	12. 1880s style Stock saddle. Hand carved border. Saddle pockets, Eagle Beak taps, canteen, rifle scabbard, tooled to match.
	13. Custom saddle built to customer specifications, based on the old Hope style saddle.

	14. 1870s period Drover saddle. A fork, 5" cantle. 1/2 seat. Large square skirts. Sam Stagg rigging. Brass hardware. Shown with taps.
	15. 14" wide Association swell with 1 1/2" undercuts. Full basket stamp. Stainless steel hardware. This saddle was designed to give an Old Style look but retains the 3-way flat-plate rigging. Saddle has a 5" high cantle, loop seat with Old Style stirrup leathers. Stainless steel bound bell stirrups. Fancy Montana Silversmith conchos. Natural color rawhide bound horn and cantle.
	16. Front, on side view of the above 1870s Drover.
	17. 1890s style loop seat saddle. 5 1/2" cantle. 1" old style Cheyenne roll. All brass hardware. Basket style border tooling. Dark antique finish. Shown with small taps.
	18. 1870s Drover, 1/2 seat, Sam Stagg rigged.
	19. 1890s Stock saddle, loop seat, Cheyenne roll. Old Time headstall, one-piece breast collar, saddle pockets, tooled to match.
	20. 1880s Stock saddle, hand tooled, black, matching 3-piece breast collar.
	21. 1890s Stock saddle, loop seat.
	22. Old Montana style swell. 4" high horn. High back straight up style cantle. Loop seat with Old Style stirrup leathers. 3/4 large brass rigging with a rear cincha. Meander border tooling. Brass bound stirrups and all brass hardware. Authentic to late 1880s/1890s period. This type of saddle would be good for Cowboy re-enactments or Mounted Cowboy Shooting. Built tough enough for any kind of ranch work or roping.
	23. Pony Express saddle with locking mail bags.
	24. Old time style saddle on mule bars. A-fork, loop seat, old style stirrup leathers, taps. Running W border stamped.
	25. 1890s Old Style stock saddle , A-fork, 5 1/2" cantle, large square skirts, loop seat. Shown with buckin' rolls, saddle pockets, and taps.
	26. 1890s style stock saddle. A-fork. 5" cantle with old time Cheyenne roll. Loop seat. 7/8 double rigged. All brass hardware. Double cross basket stamp pattern. 3 1/2" brass bound bell stirrups.

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