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Stove Pipe Boot Collection, c1870s [122821]

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Stove Pipe Boot Collection, c1870s  [122821]
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1,500.00USD+ (375.00) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2021 May 15 @ 08:35UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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This is a choice collection of four pair of very historical Stove Pipe style boots "made for drovers, prospectors and shooters." It is from the Pierce Powell Collection of Virginia City, Nevada and was never on public display.
"Manufactured and Warranted/ J. W. Reynolds/ California Trade" punched into the leather with gilt lettering fillin in an oval on both boots near the top of the shin section. In a search of newspapers.com and California Digital Newspapers, we found absolutely nothing about this company, either in original advertisements or otherwise. c1870-1880
"California/ Home Made/ Warranted". The same comment as above applies. This cartouche is also an oval punched into the leather, gilt lettered, near the top of the shin section. c1870-1880
"The (pic of solid star) Boot". The Star Boot appears to be a brand name apparently coming out of Kansas. This is a one line cartouche, gilt lettered, also near the top of the shin section. Advertisements for Star boots were found from 1870 to the late 1880s, pretty much mostly in Kansas. One of the Star Boot stores was run by the Reynolds Brothers, but we could not determine if that was a coincidence with the California boots above.
"Fogg, Houghton & Cooldige/ S. Weymouth, Mass." Oval cartouche, gilt lettered, placed near the top of the shin section. This is an 1870s boot, sold out of Boston.
A few comments are warranted. We were completely unable to find actual historical refernces to vintage nineteenth century boot collections. It is entirely possible that remaining "signed" boots from this classic period of western prospecting and growth of our country are so rare that few still exist.

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Provenance: The Historic V & T Railroad Depot Stockpile of Pierce Powell's Western Memorabilia