HUBLEY HORSE BOOT SCRAPER - CLOSER TO THE REAL STORY
This horse boot scraper can be found on the internet with conflicting identifications. Some say it's from the 19th c....some say it was manufactured by Hubley. There is one example that is marked "Hart" inside a heart on the bottom of the base. The horse does indeed to appear to be the Hubley Show Horse Doorstop. Other examples are also clones of Hubley doorstops...a nother horse, the Boxer, Mammy, Setter and Cocker Spaniel. All of these examples are marked 5700 or 5800 on the bottom of the base, just like the B.B. Butt examples. Here is an example of the Mammy I have some information that gets closer to the real story as to the origin of these boot scrapers. The patent for the base was obtained in 1938 by Savannah Barrett Butt. She ran a little business out of her basement in Baltimore, Maryland and had a couple employees. There are multiple examples of twin figural scrapers that are marked "BB" on the top corner of the base and