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Bohlin Double Mounted Silver Spurs Circa 1940 Double mounted silver spurs by Edward H. Bohlin, circa 1940. These bear the early Hollywood mark. They're stainless, wrapped in silver jackets as described by Charlie Sample, former Bohlin silversmith. Fully engraved with a central open diamond for initials, and with silver cookie cutter rowels. Period tooled straps with large Bohlin conchos and 3-piece Bohlin buckle sets are present, also marked with the early Hollywood mark. Boots with Bohlin engraved heel caps sold separately. Price: $11,000.00 stock#ehbohl....07 |
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Crockett Silver Mounted Parade Spurs Circa 1935 Large spurs with big rowels, marked Crockett. Silver overlay, engraved beautifully, adorns the outside heelbands. A piece of silver is also overlaid onto each rowel, like a fixed rowel disk. These were clearly used but still retain 80% of their engraving. In very good condition. In our opinion, the overlay and engraving was done in the Crockett shop. Heelbands are 1 1/4" wide, rowels are 2 1/4". Price: $3,500.00 |
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Hollywood Saddlery Gun Rig Circa 1940 Fully floral carved and tooled buscadero gun rig made by Hollywood Saddlery. Each holster and the belt are marked with the maker name. This has an unusually beautiful large sterling 3-piece 1 1/2" buckle set as well as 2 smaller sets around each holster. All are marked Hollywood Saddlery and are beautifully engraved with a scrolls and a floral pattern. This is a really great rig from a Montana estate and is an early example of the work. Hollywood Saddlery often helped the Bohlin shop out with saddle making or even silver work.
Price: $5,750.00 stock#holl01...02 |
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Fancy Parade Outfit with Saddle Serape Circa: 1950 Stunning red wool gabardine parade outfit with large butterflies chainstitched on shirt and pants. Incredible work, and amazingly, home-made. The shirt and pants have cream rayon fringe, cream edge piping, and cream leaves embroidered around the butterflies. The shirt has a removable western front placket with pearl snaps, and it has the same (but larger) butterfly in the center back, with a deep outlined yoke and cream fringe. The saddle drape is hand painted with a western vignette on each side, and is signed Hilda Volkmann. It also has rayon fringe, and is lined in vinyl to protect it from dirt and sweat. Fits approx. size 6 woman. The pants have been taken in and hemmed, but can be let out without damage to cloth. Some slight sweat stains on shirt, and light soiling on serape consistent with occasional use. Price: $2,500.00 |
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Alfonso's Quickdraw Holster Circa: 1960 Vintage Alfonso's of Hollywood filigree quick draw gun rig, with the name Dolly Johnson stamped inside. Alfonso's is still in business today, but Alfonso Pineda passed away in 1995. Black "No. 3" full floral filigree leather, with gold calf underneath, and gold cartridge loops. This model was made so that the holster could be worn high on the belt or dropped low. The holster has two 1/2" sterling buckle sets, as well as a large sterling engraved garrison style main buckle with a unique two-tipped billet. The buckle is marked "Espinosa". Approx size 29". Quick Draw contests were popular in mid-century, and if you were a gun-slingin' gal with some style, you'd pick the filigree leather technique made popular by Edward Bohlin and company in 1930's Hollywood. Price: $3,500.00 stock#alfono...01 |
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Silver Parade Spurs Circa 1940 Unmarked, possibly Crockett parade spurs with silver engraved overlay on the outside heelbands and shanks. Beautifully engraved silver and engraved silver buttons. The rowels appear to be hand made and may have been replaced at some point, although it was done without affecting the overlay on the shank. Price: $1,825.00 stock#defau...931 |
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Parade Gun Rig Circa 1959 Incredibly showy sterling mounted holster and gun belt, with sterling and gold Keyston Brothers 1" buckle set. There appear to be two sapphires set into the gold flowers on the buckle. The belt has raised diamond sterling engraved conchos all the way around. Also included is a Colt Frontier Scout Revolver, circa 1959, with faux pearl grips. These wonderful items belonged to Carol Minter, and comes with a photo of her in full parade regalia, on a gorgeous palomino, wearing the rig. The gun and belt are in nice condition with the billet being worn; she probably only used them in parades. Please note that the transfer of the gun must conform to any and all state/federal regulations, and an FFL transfer through a third party will be required. This item will not be shipped outside the United States. Price: $3,625.00 stock# defau...1398 |
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Buck Jones/Montie Montana Spade Bit Circa 1920 From Montie Montana's estate, a spade bit he labeled "Buck Jones Bit", indicating that he had purchased or been given this silver overlaid domed cheek bit. Montie Montana was a trick roper and real cowboy from - guess where. He appeared in a number of John Wayne movies and made headlines in 1953 when he roped Pres Eisenhower as a gag during his inaugural parade. He asked the President's permission first, but Secret Service agents were unamused by the incident. Mr Montana was a fixture on the rodeo circuit in the USA and Canada and also appeared in more than 60 annual Tournament of Roses parades in Pasadena, California, waving to the crowd from a silver saddle. He has been inducted into the Cowboy Hall of Fame. For his part, Buck Jones was a popular silent film star who replaced Tom Mix when Mix's ego got too big for the studios. The bit shows typical California cabbage leaf and clover engraving. Domed conchos were probably added by Jones or custom ordered - the engraving is not the same as that of the cheeks. This is nice early piece, with double Hollywood provenance. Price: $3,500.00 stock#3493 |
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Navajo Style Gun Rig Circa 1950 Fabulous heavy leather double buscadero gun rig with incredible Navajo stampwork, including thunderbirds, arrows, snakes, whirling logs and lizards. This is one of only two ever made, custom ordered by "The Pony Express" Sport Shop in Encino, California. It was purchased by Cayuse, directly from the shop owner's family. It was put together by (and maker-marked) Lee Ferris who was a Bohlin employee. The rig has sterling silver stamped and repossed Navajo silver conchos set with turqoise as well as butterfly spacers, affixed to the leather. It is marked: "Pony Express Sport Shop Encino, Calif, 36 / 41 (hip size) - 38 - 5 1/2 CSA". The latter part indicates that the holsters fit two .38 Colt Single Actions with 5 1/2" barrels. It is missing one piece of turquoise, otherwise in excellent condition. The Pony Express Sport Shop was purportedly a favorite stop for John Wayne and other Hollywood notables and their friends. Price: $5,500.00 stock#ferrl...01 |
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Visalia Bridle Circa 1920 Floral carved and studded with the rare, early San Francisco cartouche spelled out. Includes overlaid unmarked but undoubtedly Visalia Port Bit. Very fine condition.
Price: $3,850 stock#6195 |
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William S. Hart Gouache - Fred Kulz (no dates) Circa: 1920-30 Painting of William S. Hart, by Fred Kulz, illustrator. Showing Hart with gun drawn, and with trademark brass heart on the horse's breastcollar. Hart was an early silent film and early "talkie" cowboy. He was a highly trained actor and was wildly popular throughout most of his career, until actors like Tom Mix, with more flash and romance, surpassed him. Not much is known of Kulz, except that he illustrated books and sheet music. This painting was evidently cover art for something -perhaps a pulp fiction about one of his characters. The piece has a nice modern feel to it. Image is 11.75" x 9.75" in larger, vintage distressed frame. Price: $5,800.00 |
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Stetson Hat Circa: 1940 Nutria Stetson with pencil rolled brim and gros- grain ribbon in excellent shape, from Silverwood's Department Store in Hollywood California, circa 1940. Western Dress was so popular in Hollywood and Los Angeles that the major department stores carried high-end goods for their well-heeled customers. Beautiful condition. Price: $2,000.00 stock#6362 |
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Ken Maynard and Tarzan Striking large hand painted photograph. A great example of the real cowboy gravitating toward Hollywood, Ken Maynard performed with the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show, and was a world champion trick ride before he became, some claim, the first, singing cowboy in film. Unfortunately, his singing voice was not great. But his horsmanship with his co-star Tarzan was fantastic. His career in film started in 1920 and ended in the 1940's. The photo is signed Sahli, Appleton, Wisconsin. In this photo Ken sits astride a silver and brown saddle, with matching bridle and martingale and corona blanket. He's wearing what looks to be an N. Turk outfit - de rigeur for the day. Framed: 35 3/4" in height, 28" in width. Image size: 31 1/2" height, 23 1/2" width. Price: $1,625.00 |
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Tom Mix Wooden Horse Circa: 1930 Great toy horse on wheels with Tom Mix and Tony written on the back of the horse. Tony, of course, was Tom's faithful steed. The graphics on the horse emulate the fancy silver mounted bridle and breastcollar Tom Mix used. The manufacturer is printed on the bottom "The Menbel Co., Inc. 1900 N. Market St. St. Louis, MO". Rare.
Price: $1,115.00 |
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Texas Guinan Original Stone Lithograph Circa: 1920 Mary Louise Cecilia "Texas" Guinan was born in Waco, Texas, 1884. As a young girl, she dreamed of being a performer, and as soon as she was old enough, headed to New York where she began a career as a Broadway singer. Her big break came with the introduction of movie making. Her initial film "The Wildcat" introduced her as America's first movie cowgirl. She was soon a pistol packing Queen of the West and she went on to star in several films, including two sound pictures, one in which she played a slightly fictionalized version of herself as a speakeasy proprietress. Texas also left her mark as an entrepreneur, opening up speakeasy clubs during prohibition (one named the Del Fey), which included hostesses who did more than just serve drinks. She denied she ever provided pornographic entertainment, and when accused of serving alchohol, claimed that she was just serving mixers, and could she help it if her patrons brought in flasks? Texas contributed a number of phrases to the popular vernacular, such as "Butter and Egg men" referring to well-heeled customers. She always asked that her patrons "Give the little lady a great big hand." She traditionally greeted her customers with "Hello, suckers!" When the Great Depression bit into her profits, Texas took her show on the road, complete with fan dancers. While on tour in Vancouver, British Columbia, she contracted amoebic dysentery and passed away at age 49. Twelve thousand attended her funereal procession in Manhattan. One month to the day after her death, prohibition was repealed. Interestingly, Mae West's persona was based on her friend Texas Guinan; George Raft had originally wanted to cast Texas in Mae West's catapulting role - had that happened, the world would know Texas Guinan instead of Mae West. The movie Splendor in the Grass is based on Texas, and "All That Jazz" from "Chicago" is thought to be a tribute to her. She must have been quite a gal..... Price: $6,500.00 |
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"Girl of the West" Circa: 1925 Wonderful large movie poster for Eileen Sedgwick in "Girl of the West", distributed by the Chesterfield Motion Picture Corporation. The poster features both Eileen and her sister Josie, and a male sheriff cautiously looking to the left in a drama-filled pose. The Sedgwick sisters were, again, real cowgirls who starred in early silent films - before the cowgirl was relegated to a helpless female in fantastic boots. Both sisters are in the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame. Great colors and scale on this one. Framed dimensions are 45.5" x 31.5" Price: $3,750.00 |
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Bohlin Bolo Tie Circa: 1980 Edward H. Bohlin sterling tie slide with ruby eyes. The classic Bohlin longhorn figure is mounted on thick braided black leather, and has sterling engraved tips. Shown here on a vintage Bohlin wool gabardine western snap shirt (sold separately). 2.8" wide and 1.5" top to bottom (longhorn). Price: $850.00 |
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Classic McCabe Ranger Set Circa: 1930-40 McCabe Silversmiths turned out some of the finest silver saddles and buckles in Hollywood. This is a demure buckle set. All sterling, engraved with an open shield on the buckle. Fits a 3/4" belt. Price: $1,350.00 |
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Sterling Bohlin Buckle Set Circa: 1940 By the maker who defined western style in the 1930's and 1940's. Stamped with the desirable "Bohlinmade" Hollywood mark. A dainty 4-piece set that will fit a 3/4" tapered billet on a belt. Shown here on a vintage belt. Classicially engraved, with a diamond shield in the center. Price: $1,600.00 |
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Umarked McCabe Apple Valley Buckle Circa: 1930's This buckle is almost certainly made by McCabe Silversmiths, although it is un-marked. We have had two other similar buckles with the McCabe mark, in the past. The engraving is trademark McCabe engraving. The 10K yellow gold figure in the center is "Little Newt", and the Apple Valley AV brand is below him. Buckles with this figure were given as gifts from an Apple Valley, CA real estate executive who was, along with Roy Rogers, trying to gain investors in the region. Apple Valley was billed as the next San Fernando Valley, and was a popular rural getaway for many Hollywood stars. Initials A.L. in green gold are overlaid onto the banner, probably by the original silversmith. Incredible engraved detail in the background, including distant hills, a rising sun, and Apple Valley's unique Joshua Trees. Size: L: 3 3/4" x W: 2 3/4". Fits a 1 1/2" belt. Price: $1,500.00 |
