Thursday, January 31, 2013

12" Horse Pattern

This is the 24" wooden horse that I've seen in a few Williams" houses, and is cut from 1/2" board and painted black.

Grandpa's notes on the pattern:

"Horse- copied from weather vane from the old barn, Detroit, Maine by EE Libbey.  EEL made copy 1953 for BEW.  This pattern made Dec 1984 from EEL wood horse by G Dean Williams."

In talking with Grandma (Betsey Williams) May 29, 2013, she tells me that my great-grandfather (EEL or Everett Libbey) traced the horse from a wooden weather vane that was on his barn.  He then made a black wooden (1/2 inch thick) horse that he gave to Dean and Betsey as a wedding present in the the early 1940s.  Dean created this pattern from that horse.

Pattern for horse (open the link in google docs, then go to "File" and "Downloand" and open with Adobe, then the pattern will look right).

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