POST WAR (WW II) issue of "Williams Saddlery Catalog", Deming, New Mexico. [ Founded in the late 1800's ]
Front cover states: William R. Russell, Manager
This scarce 1947 catalog from an iconic saddlery measures 6" x 9" with 16 pristine clean semi-glossy pages. It presents sepia tone photos & illustrations of hand crafted saddles along with other various western items.
Catalog is in excellent clean condition with no writings or names present. There is a gentle fold that angles from the top right corner.
Note: Inside cover alerts the reader to the post WWII situation that had impacted their business. (see photo)
Quote From HIGH NOON: "In the early 1890s, a young J. B. Williams went to work in the saddle shop of J. W. Tennyson in Sweetwater, Texas, before purchasing and relocating that saddlery to Gordon, and then to Kerrville, Texas, around 1900. .J B. would combine business with pleasure by riding the old cattle trail from Texas to its end in Abilene, Kansas, and later making saddles for the cattlemen. Worked for R. J. Andrews and Jim Coleman in the Dunn Saddlery at San Angelo, E. T. Amonett of Roswell, NM and R. T. Frazier in Pueblo. Finally settled in Deming, NM around 1918 where he continued, for a quarter of a century, to make high-grade saddles for “cowmen and riders,” shipping them all over the country."
J.B. Williams was said to be "The only man to ride the old cattle trail and later to make saddles for cattlemen is J. B. Williams - going up the old cattle trail in 1897 for Ike T. Pryer from the old Mayberry pasture in Kimball County at London, Texas, to the end of the trail at Abilene, Kansas."
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Product code: Williams Saddlery shops Catalog, Deming, New Mexico