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Pete VerBeck 14" saddle, full tooled

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Pete VerBeck 14  saddle, full tooled
"Pete VerBeck 14"" saddle, Miles City, MT, full flower tooled, rd. skirts, dble rigged. Pete Verbeck, started at the age of 15, in 1915, in an apprenticeship under Furstnow’s, Al Moreno.He spent five years learning the intricate art of carving flowers on the more ornate saddles. He worked there until 1919, when he went over to the Miles City Saddlery. He switched back and forth from time to time, thanks primarily due the Depression, which found a man taking work wherever and whenever it was available. He was the foreman at Miles City Saddlery from 1939 to 1944, at which time he opened his own shop. In 1947, he opened his own shop, Pete's Saddle Shop, and made saddles there until he died in 1976.
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