Length: 9 7/8""
Width: 2 3/8"
Platform Height: average 1/2"
Curl Height: 2 1/4"
Blade Height: 1"
Blade Width: 1/4" Modest rocker, modest gutter. Length of the blade is convex- wider in the middle and tapered to either end.
Stamped 'cast steel'. Some original varnish remains. Hand stitched leathers. Sharp nail in the heel to hold the boot in place. Brass stanchions. Brass strip on the toe leather, brass heel cup both with embossed diamond pattern. Copper rivets. Unusual relief of skaters skating embossed on the heel cups.
Circa: 1850-60
Length: 11 3/4"
Width: 3 1/8"
Blade Width: 1/4" rockered
Curl Height: 3 7/8"
All metal manufactured by Clarenbach & Herder, Philadelphia, cast steel, stamped 100.. Copper rivets to hold leather straps in place. Four stanchions.
Circa: 1868
Length: 11 1/2"
Width: 2 3/4"
Blade Width: 3/16" Very little rocker, no gutter. Blade flares out from top to bottom creating more grip on the ice.
Blade Height: 1 5/8"
Curl Height: 2 1/4"
Small, factory made metal skates with no platform or stanchions. It would flex under use. Stamped Pat'd APL. 7 1868 Cast Steel (and) 11. Patented by M. C. Haight, patent # 76,324. Two sharp barbs in the toe and a large screw in the heel. Leather straps fastened under the toe plate with copper rivets.
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)
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"
Could be a Sandford model. Hourglass platform, sharp spike in the heel, manufactured & stamped 10 on the bottom of the platform. Delicate curled tips. Leathers hand stitched, hammered rivets
Circa: 1865-1870
Length: 11 1/4"
Width: 2 3/8"
Platform Height: 7/8"
Blade Height: 1 1/8"
Blade Width: 1/4" Half rocker. No gutter.
Stamped C. A. Williams, Steel Plate Hardened. Size 10/19. Possibly rosewood, original varnish, decorative heel and toe plates. Screw in the heel and two barbs in the toe.
Circa: 1870-1890
Length: 11 1/2""
Width: 2 1/2"
Platform Height: average 3/4"
Blade Height: 1"
Blade Width: 5/16" at the widest point. Length of the blade is convex- wider in the middle and tapered to either end. No gutter. Half rocker.
Stamped Fred F. Hassam, Boston on the blade and the toe plate. Brass toe and heel plates. Brass buckles with copper rivets. Rosewood, finely finished and polished. Blade is heavy, nickel-plated and polished to a super bright finish.
Circa: 1905
Length: 10 1/2"
Width: Opens to 4"
Blade Width: 1/4"
Unusual metal skates by Martin Skate Co. Massachusetts. Pat. Nov 7, 1905. They fold up completely onto 1 plane for easy carrying. A cam action lever tightens the clips when they are opened up.
