O.P.S. era Royal Stetson Bantam from M. Schwartz & Co. of Poughkeepsie, New York.
I've not had a lot of success finding much on the history of this business. I don't even know what the "M" stands for.
It appears to have started around 1868 and ended in the early 1990s.
Around the turn...
These finally showed up (they showed on USPS tracking as “out for delivery”, then went to “return to sender” — they shipped them in a liquor box and that bounced them back to Colorado apparently).
A couple of snags in the stitching.
They have the ink stamp in one boot and the original...
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