Someone with more knowledge than me knows, but I am recalling that Duff Severe went to work for the saddle shop and his brother went to work in the tree shop after the war. At least in the 1942 reprint, Hamley's still had their own tree shop. Not sure if any McMillen stamps were ever numbered themselves. I have a couple old stamps that were reported to be McMillens and matched up to catalog impressions, but no numbers. The border stamp sure likes a commonly used McMillen pattern (want to say a #328). I would suspect from the numbering that it is an old McMillen stamp too. That "daisy basket" pattern was pretty commonly used back then by several makers. They also show other saddle models with 7 petaled flowers in that pattern, and a five petal with the squarish tips. I am sure they could have used whatever flower a customer wanted. The picture they show in the catalog has a 12 or 13 petal flower used. I have an old Hamley catalog reprint along with shreds of a real one, and saddle E203 is the Daisy Mae, as Ronny said. It would be nice to know who the orginal owner was that had his initials carved in the cantle, but that info is most likely long lost. Just thought you might enjoy seeing this good old saddle. The tree was in very good condition, all the rawhide tight with no signs of pulling apart at the laces. I fould a picture of a simular saddle in an old Hamley Cataloge dated 1940, so I presume it was made before the war. The saddle was in really good shape and taken care of for the shape it was in. I really like this one and wish I had taken a picture of it before I started the work. The saddle is flower stamped with a small flower tool about the size of a quarter all over the saddle. On the back on the cantle is the Initials "D.C.S." Under the intitials is E203 Special E798 I presume these are the model numbers and the special indicates that the customer ordered it with his initials tooled in the back of the cantle. It is stamped "Hamleys Company Pendleton Oregon. I thought I would post a picture of this Old Haney saddle that came in for repair.
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