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1943 Bobby Estes Trophy Buckle and Award

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:2,500.00 USD Estimated At:5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD
1943 Bobby Estes Trophy Buckle and Award
Preview: Phoenix Marriott Mesa - 200 N Centennial Way, Mesa, AZ 85201
Preview Period:
Thursday January 27 -- 3:00 pm-7:00 pm
Friday January 28 -- 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Saturday January 29 – 9:00 am -4:30 pm
Marvelous, early sterling and rose gold 2” x 3” trophy buckle presented to National Rodeo Hall of Fame Honoree (1991) Bobby Estes in 1943 for barerback riding at Boston Garden. Buckle has four flowers with ruby centers and a heavy gauge gold let ‘er buck cowboy; Plus Bobby’s 1991 National Rodeo Hall of Fame Honoree Award Bobby Estes (1920-2006) popular Bareback Bronc and Bull Rider who gained fame as a Rodeo producer, taking his rodeo show across Europe in 1956. He rode his first steer at the Stamford Reunion in 1935 where he met Will Rogers. Bobby got to see plenty of the world, much of it on the back of a bucking horse or bull. At age 18 he and some other rodeo performers took a ship down South America way for a series of rodeos. “That whole trip was wild,” Bobby said, thinking back on his adventures in South America. “The president of Venezuela had to OK our leaving, because we’d got into so much trouble, fighting and raising hell and all. Later I wrote a story about it. I called it, Dodge City, Venezuela.“ Eventually Bobby Estes became a busy rodeo producer, putting together shows that included everything from western singers to authentic Indians, to top-flight rodeo performers, to imaginatively staged Wild West shows. The high point of his life came when he led a tour of Indians, cowboys and musicians across Europe in 1956. The show included Chief Brave Scout and his wife, Mrs. Chief Brave Scout, both of Pawnee, Okla. The Mrs. had supposedly traveled to Paris years before with no less than Buffalo Bill. The tour, including a month of performances in Paris, proved so successful, that Bobby was invited by a representative of several oil companies to take his Wild West show to the arid oil fields of the Middle East.