Sears Leather shop motorcycle jacket

[Alabama Blacksmith]

Picked this one up for $65 so I thought it would make a good daily wear jacket . It's in good shape and is steerhide. It needed a good cleaning then I conditioned with a homemade conditioner and brushed/polished afterwards .
Would love to get a ideas as to it's age , I'm thinking 70's maybe ? Any help would be appreciated ( I've read the Sears thread ) .

 

[The Lost Cowboy]

Picked this one up for $65 so I thought it would make a good daily wear jacket . It's in good shape and is steerhide. It needed a good cleaning then I conditioned with a homemade conditioner and brushed/polished afterwards .
Would love to get a ideas as to it's age , I'm thinking 70's maybe ? Any help would be appreciated ( I've read the Sears thread ) .

We don’t see too many Sears The Leather Shop crosszip jackets around here and more’s the pity in my opinion. I got one a few months back just to try and ended up loving it. It’s very good quality and fits better than my Lost Worlds.

I definitely plan to get another one of these - especially since they are so inexpensive on eBay. I reckon mine is from the 1970s and yours probably as well, but I have no basis for that belief. There is another model with a bi-panel back but the leather looks like garbage to my eye (just judging from eBay photos) and I am assuming that is some rendition from a later era.

But how do you know it’s steerhide - can you tell from the feel or does your jacket say somewhere?

Congrats on a great buy! Here’s mine:

 

[Alabama Blacksmith]

I'm going by weight and temper on the leather. Also the grain is tighter on steerhide. This 9ne is is thick and heavy and the temper is quite firm on the areas without alot of wear on them .

 

[AeroFan_07]

Nice Pickup here. Likely cowhide, perhaps sourced from Excelled.
Found online that the boxed logo ran from 1963 - 1984
the addition of the "Tall" may suggest a later '70's or even early '80's produced jacket.

 

[TREEMAN]

SCORE !! Any time i go to a thrift shop the leather jackets are always total junk. Stretched out odd ball jackets.