Swedish Lapland Sleigh Canadian Ice Skating Antique Photograph showing a group

Antique Photograph showing a group of skiers in the Skyliner Ski Club

++ leather grip

They are constructed from a bamboo shaft

Typical designs of the day employed a pair of fixed wooden runners with a third

Swedish Lapland Sleigh Canadian Ice Skating Antique Photograph showing a groupThis Sami made Lapstrake Lapland Sleigh was discovered by our Swedish Antique dealer friend. It was made by the locals for reindeer to pull supplies (and their families) through the snowy forests of the northern most part of Finland (Lapland). (Sami are the people of Lapland, Lapstrake is the construction: see below) Acquired in 1999 and shipped to Florida in 2003, it was housed in the Winter Sports Museum in Colorado until 2010. We at Vintage Winter