Banchory and Loch Lion Horse Stud Broadside

BANCHORY AND LOCH LION HORSE STUD BROADSIDE

Exceptionally rare horse stud broadside featuring two two black stable hands reining the horses Banchory and Loch Lion. In part the broadside reads:

BANCHORY AND LOCH LION, Two imported registered Clydesdale Horses, will stand the ensuing seadon, commencing April 1st, ad ending June 21st, 1883, at our respective stables, Carter Hall and Long Branch – the first three days of the week at Carter Hall and the last three days at Long Branch… For pedigree of Banchory see stud-book No. 1927. For Loch Lion see No. 2330.”

“Description. - Banchory is a dark bay, with black points, 16 ½ hands high, and weights about 1800 lbs. Loch Lion is a rising three-year-old, bright bay, black mane and tail, white points, weights 1500 lbs., and is 16 hands high.”

(signed in type by) T.M. & H.M. Nelson

Illustrated broadside 17 x 12 inches, Millwood, VA. 1883. Minor edge wear, slight repaired damage, mostly around the third paragraph with some letters supplied in ink, minor restoration within illustration. Restored condition is very good.

Both the Long Branch and Carter Hall plantations in Millwood, Virginia were owned by the Nelson-Burwell families. Slavery was part of both plantations operation and after their emancipation many continued on as sharecroppers. During the Civil War Stonewall Jackson briefly used Carter Hall as his operating base.

This broadside is quite rare with no copies recorded on OCLC. However the Virginia Museum of History and Culture’s Broadside Collection and the Long Branch Plantation Museum and Archive do retain a copies.