Brasses Information

Horse Brass History

Horse brasses beginnings in 16th Century Walsall

Martingale and other decorative strapping

Read through the history of cast brasses

Stamped brasses, pressed brasses, metals, medallions, plates

One of the best known heavy horse decorations -aside from those known as facepieces, or hanging brasses- are fly-terrets.

These brasses were usually manufactured the year before in readiness to commemorate the particular event that they depict

In the 19th Century bell brasses were two or three times more expensive than ordinary brasses.

It is an issue, which generates a lot of discussion, some of it heated, and it is our intention to focus on these brasses more

From the mid-to-late nineteenth century onwards, the manufacture of the largest range of decorative brassware was centred on the areas of Birmingham

Unknown brasses that we sometimes come across in order that someone out there may be able to identify them?