Jumbo Brand Western Saddles

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I doubt this is the proper place for this post but it seems to be the closest thing to it since it at least deals with animals. Laughing

Recently, my husband purchased an old Jumbo Brand western saddle. It has some identifying numbers on it and I am interested in locating some history on the saddles. I have found some very limited information on the net and I am obviously not typing in the more pointed search words. I would appreciate any help I can get. I have found two sites that we can purchase a CD of catalogs from. One from 1924 and one from 1930. We are thinking the saddle was made in 1932, as 32 are the last two numbers on the saddle (just guessing of course).

I would appreciate any and all help on this!

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You might pm to Dyslexia on this one. I promise he'll know more than I.

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Well, he's certainly not going to know less.

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Hey Roger! How are you? Thanx! I bet Dys would know something about this topic. I appreciate it!

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Jumbo brand saddles are well made roper saddles, the pre 1940 are collectors, used to be very popular with 4 H cause they tend to be dressy, they sit well with most horses. I always prefered the Mcclland style but Jumbo are very nice if in excellent condition.

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Thanx Dys. I did find two pages on the net from a CD company that has two catalogs to The Schoellkopf Company (they made them) that started out (around 1869) using the White Elephant brand then in about 1902 they changed it to Jumbo Brand.

http://www.cabincreekcds.com/Schoellkopf25.htm

http://www.cabincreekcds.com/Schoellkopf30.htm

The saddle that Johnny purchased is beautiful and it's in really good condition. It is missing the strap that covers the stirrup, judging from the pictures I have found, but the leather is in excellent shape and there seems to be no rot.

Do you know if there is a way to find out when the saddle was made? There are some numbers stamped into the saddle but I haven't been able to match them up to anything I've found so far. I am still trying to search the net but I am just not coming up with much at all. Very brief things about the company and that's about it.

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I was really hoping someone could help me out with this. I can't find much at all. The library wasn't much help. Does anyone have any idea how I would go about finding the history of companies? I tried googling the company name with the word history but found pretty much zip.

Thanx!

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Have you looked at this

http://www.tom-stevens.com/Antique/AntiqueSaddles.html

They're looking for a very particular Jumbo saddle that used to belong to Ross Perot's father, and have this Jumbo for sale

http://www.tom-stevens.com/Antique/RaineyJumbo/RaineyJumbo.html

They seem quite knowledgeable - could probably help you search.

Good luck.

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Thank you so much Ehbeth! I'll let you know what I find out!

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Jumbo Saddles
My Stepdad has a jumbo saddle also and is looking to find out it's value. If anyone has any information that would be helpful I would appreciate it. My name is Kristi and my email is neyo6@aol.com

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Do you have any idea what year the saddle was made?

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@dyslexia,

would you have any idea when they came out with a kim shoulders signature seires saddle & how much the where. i just traded for 1 in exllent con.

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@mocowboy68,

jim shoulders jumbo ... sorry about the typo

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I found this site:

http://www.western-saddle-guide.com/gallery-antique-saddles.html

I am going to email them and see if they can help with info.

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@Arella Mae,

I too have an old Jumbo saddle by the Schoellkopf Co. that my parents bought for me in 1958. I have been told that I am the third owner. My parents bought it from my sistor-in-laws family and they had gotten it from another family in the tiny town I was raised. It is a youth's saddle with a smaller set and has a tin or zink plated metal covering over the sturrip that is orignal. It most closely resembles #49 of the web site of the 1930 ad for the CD's.

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@jinks,

jinks,

Does it have the elephant on it? Originally, the jumbo saddles used an elephant as a logo (might not be the correct word). If it does, I can tell you that saddle is worth a great deal of money. If I remember correctly they stopped putting the elephant on them a long time ago so the saddles with the elephant are very rare.

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