Help to Identify Bow

[Baffinland Archer]

Hello Folks,

Need some help here. I recently recovered a couple of old bows I used to own in my high school days 36 years ago. My father bought this one for me in the early 1970's from a store that would be familiar to anyone who has lived in the Ottawa, Ontario Canada area: Laurentian Trading Post. Regrettably, they went out of business years ago.

In case the photos aren't that good, the bow is a composite fibreglass wood construction with a wood handle and fibreglass limbs formed around the wood handle. It has the following markings on the handle:

3
38
173

It is about 56" in length. I suspect it was made in Canada because there is a bilingual (English French) sticker on the limb indicating the side on which the bow must be strung.  No indication of who made it or where.

 

 

Any help would be appreciated.

Robert

[kurtbel5]

Robert
I can't help you,


Post this over in history/collecting, you will get a better answer.

[PAPALAPIN]

Robert

I can be about as much helpt as Kurt.

Looks like a decent bow though.

Considering how we have seen some bows strung up on e8ay, more manufacturors should have put stickers indicating on which side the bow should be strung.

[JavelinaHink]

Robert,
Is the green....paint? looks to be on the riser with the edges wavey....But I don't have any ideas as to the maker....Bill

[Baffinland Archer]

Bill,

The green on the riser is actually the green fibreglass limbs which have been formed/laid around the wood riser. I have never seen a bow made like this since.

When my father bought the bow for me, it was sitting all by itself with nothing but a price tag affixed to it. There were no other bows like it in the shop. No instructions, no indication whatsoever of who made it. It came with a crappy parachute cord string. The flemish string you see on it was made my yours truly a few days ago (thank you Chad Weaver and Joe Stark for making the "Doin the Twist" DVD).

The really amazing thing about this bow is that after 30 years, much of it during which it sat in an old barn exposed to moisture, cold, heat etc, there is absolutely no sign of deterioration or delamination. It is still very solid.

Hopefully, someone out there may recognize it and pipe up.

Thanks for the responses guys.

Robert

[Cody Roiter]

It could be home made as well I have many home made bows...from the 1950s

[d. ward]

Robert I would say it looks just a little like  a Tri State or USAC(united states archery company) kind of to me...bd