Featured Can anyone tell more about a Antique Horse Sleigh

Hello,
can anyone tell me more about this Horse Sleigh? I dont know anything about it.
It is 224cm long, 85cm wide, 117cm high.
Thanks for your help

 

If it's original, that's some sleigh, but it's the kind of thing that gets reproduced using modern technologies.

 

Thank you for the fast answere, i own it for at least 30 Years and bought it in Sweden.
What do you mean with some thing?

 

These baby carriages look old, but they are all brand new, made as decorative pieces.


I hope your sleigh is genuinely antique, but things like this can be decorative reproductions. I do not know what indicators there are to tell the difference between old and new.

 

Welcome, Dieter.
It is a lovely sleigh, but as moreotherstuff said, there are reproductions, especially popular in the 1980s, but still made. Those reproductions are handmade, so there is still craftmanship involved.
In my opinion the brown layer on your sleigh looks applied, rather than genuine antique dirt.

I have never seen an antique sleigh with this brown layer. Sleighs were, and still are, very well taken care of, kept clean to prevent rot, and parts repaired and paint reapplied when necessary.

 

Here is an example of a very similar sled that is a new one. Hope yours is an old one.

https://www.realorrepro.com/article/Sleds-and-Sleighs

Fig. 4 New sled with human figure carved in front. Available in several sizes: 61- 33- and 22-inch lengths.

 

I have found several very similar pieces online using a Google image search with the keywords "dutch snow sleigh"

 

This one appears to be very like yours, no info though French "style" they say. At least it has a price of $700 for a recent one sold in the US.

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/95491065_french-style-hand-carved-wood-and-wrought-metal-sled

 

All of those sleighs are too crudely carved to be Dutch or French, and the figures are rigid, with no expression or elegance. They are all recent repros, probably made in India.

Some genuine Dutch sleighs, antique examples from northern to southern Netherlands.
Friesland:


Holland:


Holland:


Zeeland:


Zeeland:

 

Thank you i have seen this one. But its a lot smaller than mine.
The wood looks realy old.
Let's treat it as if it were an original one.
I will go to the german show "Bares für Rares" with it.

 

You say yours is 224cm so about 88", the one at auction they say is 81" so not a huge difference depending on how it's measured.

Don't know anything about the TV show or how accurate they are but do let us know what they say.

 

I saw one for sale here in the Netherlands for 330 euros.

 

I'm with the reproduction crowd. One way to tell... the carvings of the woman and dog are slightly grotesque. This one doesn't even hide its Chinese origins.

Debora

 

Ludwig II, "The mad King of Bavaria", out for a jaunt:


One of his many sleighs:


The man himself:

 

Dutch Frisian repro child's sleigh, made and signed in 1968 by studio 'Roosje Hindeloopen':

 

Omg, this is like @Bronwen s cameo thread, you don’t realise how amazing the top class ones are until you can compare.
Wow! This is how to travel!

 

The 'Diana Sleigh', some aristocrat had it made for his mistress.
The other sleighs I posted were for us commoners. Of means, no doubt.

 

Sorry, I won’t settle for less than this one

 

"That's some _______" is an idiomatic way of saying a thing is an impressive specimen of its type. More of a colloquialism, really.

I find you don't realize how bad the mediocre ones are until you compare.

 

That is probably your best bet....to take it and find an expert to talk to!!! AND GOOD LUCK!!! I too hope it is original!!!