Robert Mindum
Further images
Engraving "shoeing" horn made by Robert Mindum. Cream- and brown-colored bull's horn, engraved with decorative motifs including a crown, large Tudor rose, flowerhead, imbricated scale pattern, small rosettes and scrolls; inscribed around the rim: "Robart Mindum Made this Shooing Horne for Mistris Blake Anno Domini 1612."
Very good condition; wear, discoloration, and slight losses around outer edge.
Provenance
Rushbrooke Hall, Suffolk, home to the Jermyn family since the 16th century. Prior to its destruction in 1961, Rushbrooke Hall was Suffolk's largest and most splendid moated Tudor mansion. This shoe horn is explicitly listed in an inventory of furniture in The Rushbrook Parish Registers, 1567 to 1850, with Jermyn and Davers Annals (Woodbridge: Goerge Booth, 1903), p. 416. However, the "Mistris Blake" whose name appears on the horn has not yet been identified.
Literature
Wayne Robinson, "The Opus of Robert Mindum, 1593 to 1613," https://www.academia.edu/38643954/The_Opus_of_Robert_Mindum_1593_to_1613; Robinson, "A catalogue of shoehorns made by Robert Mindum," http://coppergate.com.au/downloads/catalogue_shoehorns_Robert_Mindum_1593_1613.pdf; Robinson, "Mindum's shoehorns - a study of method," The Reverend's Big Blog of Leather, https://leatherworkingreverend.wordpress.com/2013/08/29/mindums-shoehorns-a-study-of-method/; Joan Evans, "Shoe-horns and a Powder Flask by Robert Mindum," The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 85, no. 500 (Nov. 1944): 282-284; Adele Schaverien, Horn: Its History and Its Uses, (2006), p. 106; and Paula Hardwick, Discovering Horn (1981), p. 62.
Publications
Titi Halle, ed., Cora Ginsburg: Costume Textiles Needlework 2010/11 (Hong Kong: 2010), pp. 6–7.
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