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  Winner of the 2021 Membership brass competition

                 Designed by Peter Ferguson

          Announced at the AGM 7th March 2020



 

 

Each year NHBS members send in designs one of which will be selected by a membership vote the result of which is announced at the AGM on the first Saturday in March.  The voting is open to NHBS members only who may send their votes by email, post, telephone or in person at the AGM.  We just need your name membership number and the brass design number of your choice. 

Latest News

 

Have you Read the article by Ali Garbett in the autumn edition of Heavy Horse world ??  "Sand casting a KB horse brass" pages 30-32.  Most interesting !!
29.09.20

 

The Late Douglas Hull NHBS Founder Member Death Announcement
25.07.20

 

See the latest from the 2020 AGM
14.04.20

 

Visit the AGM section to see a new page covering the Inaugural Meeting extracted from the first Journal 14.04.20

 

NHBS Inaugural Meeting held at Walsall Leather Museum 22nd November 1975  Website posting 10.03.20

 

  A "Second Super Special for Spring" 2020 NHBS Blinker Stud 03.02.20

 

 NHBS Special brass for historical Brexit
31.01.20

 

 A new section has been added to the website!!  Editions of the Newsletter will appear a couple of months after publication 12.10.19

 

 Journal Indexing is a significant step forward for the NHBS Website 4.7.19

 

 Another Enjoyable Church Stretton Meet.   4.7.19

 

Award Brass History Update
17.3.19

 

NHBS launches new award brass for 2019
30.1.19

 

In Memoriam

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

Membership Information


The National Horse Brass Society was formed in 1975 to cater for people interested in harness decorations, especially those for the heavy horse.

Will prospective members please note, you can now join online and pay by Pay Pal if you so wish.

The Society meetings,

 

 

             2020 Membership brass winner.
               Designed by Alec Hopkinson

You would receive this stunning brass as a part of your membership package and whatever journals and newsletters have been produced by joining the NHBS throughout the year.

 

This brass was produced in 2018 to commemorate the 2017 record as the longest serving Prince of Wales and in celebration of his 70th birthday 

 

The long-awaited second volume of the Collectors Anthology of Antique Horse Brasses has arrived!  

    The N.H.B.S. "Special" Brass made to commemorate Historical Brexit 2020

 



A second "special brass" for 2020 and  a first for the N.H.B.S. 

             

                      NHBS Blinker Stud