1/29/2024 0 Comments Who sells buster brown shoes![]() ![]() Here's another piece from their own (Brown Shoe Co.) website on their history:īrown Shoe Company began as a shoe manufacturing concern. (The name "Buster" came either directly or indirectly from the popularity of Buster Keaton, then a child actor in vaudeville.)" This mischievous young boy was loosely based on a boy near Outcault's home in Flushing, New York. I'm "thinking" that my knife DOES say :"02", representing the year that the Buster Brown cartoon character was started ( From Wikipedia - "Buster Brown was a comic strip character created in 1902 by Richard Felton Outcault who was known for his association with the Brown Shoe Company. The year 1902 was an important date to them, based on several references. I've done a little bit of research on the 'net and found multiple references to the Brown Shoe company's origins and history. I can, if necessary, take pics and upload them here, though I doubt I could get a close-enough pic of the lettering, but perhaps. ![]() I've seen some auctions, when the blades have been "polished up," where this has sold for upwards of $150-$175 - but I've not seen those letters close up to recognize what they might indicate. There is a tiny piece missing of the exterior bone (?) mat'l just below the center rivet on the front side below the logo. ![]() Might be "CR?02" "CR?E02 or OZ"? The blades are dull gray and stained but otherwise in fine condition. It's those unknown letters where I placed the Xs that are puzzling. On the main blade, when opened, stamped very near the base it says "Brown "XXXXXX" and then St. It has 4 blades and the bail attached and has xln't "snap" as I've just learned what that means - lol. The narrow metal logo plate is pointed on both ends, as opposed to rounded as I've seen on some. I'm looking to sell - from my dad's estate - a Buster Brown Shoes (metal logo on one side) pocket knife, about 3.5" long when closed. ![]()
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