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Antique Ice Skates |
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Collecting antique ice skates is a very rewarding hobby for a lover of skating, antiques and/or fine handicrafts. The skates below are from my personal collection. I have posted details and dated them as best I can. If anyone knows anything more about any of them I would be thrilled to hear about it. |
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Country: America Circa: 1800-1820 or earlier Length: 13 1/2" Width: 3" Curl Height: 5 3/8" Blade Width: 1/4" no rocker Probably German influence. Hand forged, all metal, iron skates with decorative, multiple scroll curl. Leather straps would have been threaded through the small gaps in the heel and toe. |
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Country: America Circa: 1840-1850 Length: 13" Width: 2 3/8" Platform Height: 3/4" Blade Height: 3/4" Blade Width: 3/16" Some rocker. Primitive groove sliced into length of blade. Curl Height: 4 1/4" Magnificent example of hand made skates. Tiger maple platform. Blade made from an old file- teeth marks and fingerprints visible on both blades. Handle fashioned into tight, delicate, multiple curls. Other end fashioned into a small plate and fastened to platform with a hand made nail. Square nail in the heel. |
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Country: Canada Circa: 1860 Length: 12 3/8" Width: 3 3/8" Platform Height: 1 1/8" Blade Width: 3/16" Extremely heavy, primitive, hand-carved, walnut platforms. Hand-forged iron blades, flanged and screwed to platform, 2 on each side. Round peg in heel and steel brace insert at the ball of the foot to prevent lateral slipping. Hand-stitched straps |
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DIMEKURLSKATE Country: Canada Circa: 1870-1880 Length: 12 1/2" Width: 2 1/2" Platform Height: 5/8' Blade Width: 3/16", hollow ground. No rocker Curl Height: 4 1/4" It is called a dimekurlskate because the crown is called a dime. This is the first dimekurlskate with a Canadian makers stamp on it. The dimekurl is invented about 1870. The wood is very old and a home made model. (Thank you to Ed Braakman for the information about Dimekurlskates) |
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Country: America Circa: 1830 Length: 9 3/8" Width: 2 1/2" Platform Height: 1 5/8" Blade Width: 2.5/16" Narrow groove ground down the midline of each blade (not entirely continuous). Could be a primitive attempt to hollow grind blades. Rockered blade. Curl Height: 1 5/16" Children's skaters. Handmade, hand carved very thick platforms, hourglass shape, traces of the original green paint remain. No heel spike remaining. |
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Country: America Circa: 1830-1860 Length: 9 3/4"" Width: 2 1/4" Platform Height: 1 1/4" Blade Height: 3/4" Blade Width: 3/16" No rocker, no gutter Very primitive, hand carved, possibly oak platform. The blade is made out of an old file- the teeth marks can still be seen on the side of the blades. The handle has been fashioned into multiple curls which fit into a groove in the toe of the platform. The other end is flattened and nailed to the heel of the platform with a large, hand-made nail. No screws or spikes or barbs to hold the boot in place. |
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