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 carved and tooled border. Hand engraved brass conchos and buckles. To see more and bigger pictures of this saddle, click here. |
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2. 1890s Northwest style A-fork. Custom period saddle with oak tooling and matching accessories. Hand engraved brass conchos and buckles. To see more and bigger pictures of this saddle, click here. |
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1890s Stock Saddle.
Hand tooled. Loop seat with old style Cheyenne roll cantle.
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4. 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 bigger pictures of this saddle, click here. |
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5. 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 bigger pictures of this saddle, click here. |
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6. 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 bigger pictures of this saddle, click here.
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7. 1880s Style saddle. Built on a mule bar tree. To see more and larger pictures of this saddle, click here. |
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8. 1890s Stock Saddle. Loop seat. Antique finish. Shown with brass oxbows - other stirrup options available. To see more and bigger pictures, click here . |
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9. Northwest Montana Saddle. This saddle was copied from an original made here in Montana, owned by Elmer MacGregor. The saddle is Ύ 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 bigger pictures of this saddle, click here. |
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10. Slick Fork Loop Seat Saddle. 1890s Visalia style. 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 Blevins buckles on the stirrup leathers. To see more and bigger pictures of this saddle, click here. |
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11. 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. |
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12. 1870s Stock Saddle. Sam Stagg rigged. Half seat. Double line hand cut border. Antique finish. To see more and larger pictures of this saddle, click here. |
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13. 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 bigger pictures of this saddle, click here. |
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14. 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 bigger pictures of this saddle, click here. |
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15. 1890s Style swell fork loop seat heavy stock saddle. This saddle is a combination of the #326 incorporated into the #14P heavy stock saddles from J. H. Willson Saddlery Co., est 1877, Denver, CO. This saddle is built on modern quarterhorse bars with a very unique basket stamp pattern with meander border and antique finish. To see more and bigger pictures of this saddle, click here. |
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16. 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 bigger pictures of this saddle, click here. |
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17. Copy of 1870s Old Style Shotgun chaps. To see more and bigger pictures 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). | |
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18. 1880s style Stock saddle. Hand carved border. Saddle pockets, Eagle Beak taps, canteen, rifle scabbard, tooled to match. |
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19. Custom saddle built to customer specifications, based on the old Hope style saddle. |
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20. 1870s period Drover saddle. A fork, 5" cantle. 1/2 seat. Large square skirts. Sam Stagg rigging. Brass hardware. Shown with taps. |
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21. Front, on side view of the above 1870s Drover. |
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22. 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. |
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23. 1870s Drover, 1/2 seat, Sam Stagg rigged. |
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24. 1890s Stock saddle, loop seat, Cheyenne roll. Old Time headstall, one-piece breast collar, saddle pockets, tooled to match. |
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25. 1880s Stock saddle, hand tooled, black, matching 3-piece breast collar. |
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26. Pony Express saddle with locking mail bags. |
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27. Old time style saddle on mule bars. A-fork, loop seat, old style stirrup leathers, taps. Running W border stamped. |
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28. 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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