A GOOD PAIR OF LEATHER POSTILLION BOOTS

A GOOD PAIR OF LEATHER POSTILLION BOOTS

18TH CENTURY

48.3cm high (2)

Provenance

The Peter Hornsby Leather Collection, item 353.

Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.

Catalogue Note

A postillion was a horseman who rode one of a pair of horses pulling a carriage, thick, heavy boots were required as the legs of the rider were susceptible to injury.