Saddleback Patch (Saddle & Peak) — modern

A Saddleback patch cut to the outline of its own artwork — a brown western saddle slung across a white mountain, SADDLEBACK in white on a black band beneath it. The name taken completely literally, in a state with no horses on the hill. The embroidery is dense and modern, raised and crisp at every edge.

The mountain is named for the dip between its two summits — a saddle, in the topographic sense, which is a perfectly ordinary word for a perfectly ordinary landform.

Somebody then took that absolutely literally and put an actual tooled western saddle on the patch, in Maine, where the nearest horse is a long way from the lift line. It is wrong in a way that is far more memorable than getting it right would have been.

The topographic saddle is clearly visible from the lake, which is presumably how the name arrived in the first place.

Embroidered, die-cut to shape. Modern production. Photos are the condition report.