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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
A very rare business card for a Los Angeles blacksmith and horse-shoer.
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Hoof Nippers? (I have no idea)
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Hoof nippers are a tool used by farriers (people who shoe horses) to nip or trim the edges of the animal's hooves. They look like long handled pliers but with two flat blades at the tips which come together and cut through the hard edges of hoofs. just like cutting fingernails. Googling an image will show them.
As to Mr Holden:
George Hampton Holden was born in New York in December of 1858. He appears in Los Angeles by 1895-96 when he is listed as a blacksmith in a Los Angeles directory. The 1895 Directory show him as living at 635 Banning St. This part of the street is no longer a street but dead ends in a parking lot.
In the 1900 Census he is living with his wife and five sons at 153 N. Prudhomme St. This street apparently does not exist anymore. It seems that it may have been taken out by the freeway.
By 1910, he was living with his wife Sara at 439 S. Chicago St., Los Angeles. He was still there in 1920. The house is still there. It is in the same general vicinity as the previous residence.
He died in 1923 and is buried in what is now the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.