Koster later served an important role as Brigadier General in that "City by the Bay" after the devastating fire that followed the big quake.
Koster was a Captain in the California National Guard and Secretary of the California Barrel Company who served in the California National Guard while dynamiting buildings in the path of the conflagration that followed the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Spurs are 100% original and in overall good condition, circa 1910. The original floral carved two piece leathers are adorned with large domed scalloped silver conchos and a raised letter "K" for the original owner John Koster. Unmarked but distinctly pictured in the early Visalia Stock Saddle Co catalogs as pattern No 78, these important double-mounted Northern California spurs with 2", 16-point spoke rowels feature cutout floral patterns on the heelbands and four coin silver spots surrounding a larger central engraved dome. It's easy to look at these cowboy tools for their function, but upon closer inspection, the expression of the individual makers comes alive and becomes art.Visalia Spurs with John Koster, San Francisco History I am very closely at this saddle and I discovered that the tree is FIBERGLASS covered. A friend received information that the saddle is more than 100 years old. By the 20th century, silver was au rigueur in the designs and contrasted Texas spurs with their nickel, copper, bronze and brass. Is a in very poor condition, with a broken fork and cantle, very unprofessionally repaired. While Texans remained loyal to their utilitarian, hard-working, simple styles, other western and rocky mountain makers like Phillips & Gutierrez and Rex Schnitger of Wyoming and Eddie Hulbert of Montana were beginning to add flourishes and designs unheard previously unheard of including ornate inlays, jinglebobs, double rowels and split Cheyenne heel bands. Later these individuals broadened and incorporated though legendary western saddleries like G S Garcia of Elko, Nevada, Messing & Sons of San Jose, California, and the Visalia Stock Saddle Company of San Francisco. Spanish colonial and early Mexican spurs transcended the mundane and utilitarian in both form and adornments as the fanciful and regal charro culture crept into the burgeoning California styles popularized by individual makers like Jose and Jesus Tapia (1831-1931), Atanasio Larios (1832-1895), Jose and Vicente Mardueno (1828-1933), the Hernandez family (1841-1900s), Albert Espinosa (1858-1937), J J and John Estrada (1931-1942) and Mike Morales (1888-1934), who were among the most popular independent makers of fine silver, enhanced iron bits and spurs. Mexican Vaqueros and later, Californios, became known for the more colorful and intricate designs that captured the eyes of both the onlookers and horsemen people who used them. However, before long, artists began adding silver, gold and other embellishments to enhance the look of both the horses and their riders.
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Download full Visalia Stock Saddle Co books PDF, EPUB, Tuebl, Textbook, Mobi or read online Visalia Stock Saddle Co anytime and anywhere on any device. These earliest examples were simple, rugged, sensible strong and utilitarian. Download Visalia Stock Saddle Co Book PDF. Though equestrian gear has been popular in Europe, South America and Mexico (Spanish Colonial) for centuries, many of the traditional early American Cowboy bits and spurs that helped settle the west originally came through the August Buermann Company founded in New Jersey in 1868.
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