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Jerry Cates Lone Star Spurs

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Jerry Cates Lone Star Spurs
Large, full mounted, maker-marked CATES 4602 Texas spurs mounted in silver and golden brass with engraved diamonds and half-diamonds on the front 1 1/4" wide heelband and a Texas Horned Owl perched on a tree limb with a gold crescent moon and five-point Lone Star in the sky, on the off-side. The stylized shank is constructed with an open, silver mounted diamond trimmed in both silver and brass, a 2", 8-point chased, iron rowel. Bob Marrs, Amarillo, two-piece, floral carved leathers are affixed to engraved silver swinging buttons. Born in 1938, Cates grew up in Foard County, Texas in a farming and ranching family. In the early 1960s, while working on a large Texas Panhandle ranch, he started repairing bits and spurs for other cowboys. Jerry made his first pair of spurs in 1969, and for three years he and his partner Bill Handley worked together on a part-time basis. With a growing demand for his work, he started making spurs and bits full-time in 1980. Cates admires the Texas patterns of McChesney, Crockett, Kelly Brothers, Adolph Bayers and Billy Klapper but has been able to create his own unique style. Highly sought after by collectors and working cowboys alike, Cates has customers worldwide, yet his talent, knowledge, and respect for the art of spur making combined with his generosity of sharing, has had a great influence on a large number of contemporary makers. Jerry's shop is always open to the eager and curious, and he offers a formal apprenticeship program for a few promising students each year. Jerry was awarded both the Academy of Western Artists Spur Maker of the Year in 1997 and the inaugural Adolph Bayers Memorial Award in 2007.