Bill - Nice photograph of the markings on the bow. Don't take this the wrong way, but just wondering if felt tip markers existed in 1944 to be able to mark the lettering as it is on the bow. A few years back I picked up an unmarked bow that I strongly suspected was a Stevenson. I spoke with the person who owns more of Chet Stevenson's items than anyone else. He told me that most of Chet's bows were not marked. Frankly, I don't know how the marked ones are marked.
Also of note is Val Sorintino's (sp) "Grumley" marked bow that I bought at auction a short while back. Simply put the bow is not a Grumley, wrong everything. Probably one that Val made to use himself, and now with no written documentation from Val to explain the pedigree of each item, his heirs are innocently selling the items, and some collectors are innocently buying them at face value. I'm certain there was never any attempt to defraud anyone in all of this by Val or his heirs. Val was a stand up guy. Talked with him on the phone many times then finally met him at a shoot back east about 5 years ago. In my case after I got Val's "Grumleyish" bow, it was very evident the bow was not worth what I paid for it, but I wanted to keep it to be able to document what "repros" look like so I can share the knowledge with others, so they do not have to make the same mistake.
I have some old photographs from Chet that he wrote on that we may be able to use to compare with the printing on the bow. I'll try to dig them out in the next few days. They are in some displays stacked on top of each other in of a half a dozen piles under some display tables. I have a few other ways that we may be able to use to identify the bow, but we can talk about them after we check Chet's hand printing.
Topic: Chester Stevenson arrows.....? (Read 854 times)
