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Garcia Silver Mounted Spurs (Famous Elko, Nevada Silversmith)

Currency:USD Category:Western Americana / Apparel - Spurs Start Price:1,500.00 USD Estimated At:3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD
Garcia Silver Mounted Spurs (Famous Elko, Nevada Silversmith)
SOLD
2,500.00USDto n********d+ buyer's premium (500.00)
This item SOLD at 2016 May 15 @ 09:53UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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Choice silver inlay with four playing card symbols with additional silver inlay leafs and bands on spur stocks. Exceptional quality. Marked with the early small letters: " ? S. Garcia/ Maker/ Elko, Nev." Nevada's early and famous silversmith out of Elko, Nevada. In 1896, Garcia and his new bride, Saturina, came to Elko with two suitcases filled with bits, spurs, riatas, rawhide headstalls and reins. Garcia set up shop in corner of Charles Mayer's old Gem Hotel and sold out the first evening. He soon opened his G.S. Garcia Harness and Saddle Shop near Sixth and Commercial streets. By 1903, Garcia was filling custom orders throughout northern Nevada which his brother would deliver by wagon. He soon had catalog orders from around the world and his impressive list of customers included such well-known names as Will Rogers and Douglas Fairbanks. Garcia's most famous saddle was one that brought home the gold medal from the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. These spurs are made in the original vaquero tradition. Silver shows on the outside of the spurs only. In-sized hearts and inlaid silver diagonals grace this fine pair. Definitely used. This is one of the finest pairs of Garcia spurs we've seen in years. City: Elko State: Nevada Date: c1910 ID# 37300