Woodtroll
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Thanks very much! I'm familiar with the term and the item, just couldn't figure out the correlation between them and location (Seattle). Thanks again for helping me out!
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Cowboy Boots
- Thread starter Jack Scorpion
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Thanks very much! I'm familiar with the term and the item, just couldn't figure out the correlation between them and location (Seattle). Thanks again for helping me out!
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Nice boots Richard. I'd like them with a bit more heel. I always get OS & Austin-Hall confused. Which one was it that the daughter took over & ran for a few yrs before going under? I have a pair of A-H stovepipes in black & they have a high polish just like your OS. And wasn't it some apprenticed bookmakers that reopened OS this last time?
Richard Morgan
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Their website is down, I thought I remembered that one of the original families was still involved but just found a newspaper article https://www.timesrecordnews.com/sto...ar-old-boot-company-olsen-stelzer/1036884002/ that says O S was struggling in the late 80s and a former national sales manager for TL took it over and brought it back to profitable. The article also says a Dallas investment company bought them in August of this year and opened a store in Turtle Creek neighborhood of Dallas. There's plenty of money in Turtle Creek but a tendency toward flash. It that's their target market we may not see anymore plain black boots like the ones I posted.
Must have been A H the daughter took over. I don't remember reading anything about that in the little bit of research I've done on OS.
Richard Morgan
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HJ, you may be thinking of when Bo Riddle and Ben 'Nobody' Hilton revived the brand around 2006-07 with funding provided by the city of Henrietta. O S had been down for about thirty years. Hilton ran off with the money provided by the city and was indicted, found, arrested, and convicted. I think Riddle is in MO making boots or playing fiddle and Hilton works for a boot maker in AK.
O S has been up and down and down and out. Mexican made Montana boots and O S were once handled out of the same house. Their bluebird boots are still on my wish list. Phone # is still in service.
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Fantastic score! Absolute classics. Congrats on those.
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You're correct BB. I had forgotten Riddle was involved & I think that may have come a bit later. It was Hilton that I couldn't think of. And Riddle has been in & out of MO several times. I don't know where he is currently.
Seems like Bob mentioned he was in Branson awhile back. Don't remember if I mentioned it before but he started making his boots in Birmingham, AL.
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I stopped in his shop in Ozark a couple of times. Saw his Bicentennial flag boots in a showcase. I was there about commissioning some black & whites, almost gave him a deposit the second time but had second thoughts. Not long after I was there is when he disappeared.
Must've had that feeling.
Wow! Yes. Absolutely stunning.
Desert dog
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Great score Richard! I like black boots, and with that toe!
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Richard Morgan
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I’m generally not a fan of either red boots or roughout but I would make an exception for those
Every man needs some red boots, Richard.
A question. Of the boots I posted above, I know Sorrell's are inlaid pieces but what about the Riff Raff pair. He's pretty well thought of as a leather tooler/carver, @Desert dog may smack me around for my ignorance, but his boots appear to me to be a pretty good sized panel, tooled, colored and inlaid as one piece in the shaft and probably not colored until the boots were turned.
Thoughts?
Thoughts?
AbbaDatDeHat
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Outstanding gnarls!!
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I live just up the I5 in Vancouver and it gets a lot of rain too. I put the Topy on all my good leather soled footwear. It stops the leather from rotting and extends the life. Probably wouldn't bother if I lived in Arizona.
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I probably don't have a pic of mine but back in the day if you wanted to "make new friends" on a nightly basis you needed a pair of TL Firewalkers.
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