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Item # SP025 / $12,000.

Rex Schnitger

About These Beautiful and Rare Rex Schnitger Spurs:

This pair of 6-Point Star Rex Schnitger spurs is a great find - dating from his period in Gillette.  They are heavy spurs with the often used bird head shank and intricate engravings on the silver overlaid bars along the yoke and shank.  The spurs feature the classic Schnitger split Cheyenne heel-band and large engraved star pattern buttons.  They have 2 inch, 18 point dotted rowels.  These Schnitgers are in outstanding 100% original condition.  Read more about Schnitger Spurs by clicking here.

About Wyoming Spur-maker Rex Schnitger:

Rex G. Schnitger was born in 1877, in Cheyenne, Wyoming.  His father was a deputy U.S. Marshall for the territory of Wyoming and later Mayor of Cheyenne, Secretary of State of Wyoming, Speaker of the State House of Representatives and U.S. Senator.  When Rex was a teenager, he learned to make bits and spurs from "Dutch" Henry Thar while working on the Whitcomb ranch, near Cheyenne.  Rex had a Stationery and Indian goods store between 1910 and 1917 in Cheyenne, where he sold his 'hand-forged, silver mounted spurs...'.  After a move to Gillette with his new bride, Ida Whitcomb, Rex opened another store.  During this period he not only sold his bits and spurs from his store, but his fame had spread and his items were being sold through the Hamley catalog.  By 1927, he and Ida had moved to Southern California to make bits and spurs for the Edward H. Bohlin company.  Rex Schnitger passed away in 1947.

Information on Rex Schnitger used information from: Bit and Spur Makers In The Texas Tradition, by Ned and Jody Martin.

Rex Schnitger Bird Shank 6-Point Star Buttons Spurs / Item # SP025 /$12,000.

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