Identify this Pearson

[Leo L.]

Just picked this bow up a couple weeks ago and I was wondering if someone might be able to help me identify it.  It's the green one all the way on the left. It's green glass, with a black plastic handle, which has a logo on it, a short, fat arrow inside a circle.  It is 52" NTN.

 

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Is it one of the Jet bows. maybe superjet? pics of the logo might help though.

[Leo L.]

The brown one next to it(2nd bow from left) is definetely a Super-Jet.

[PAPALAPIN]

LEO

It looks like an old shakespeare Parabow that I had years ago when I lived in Houma.  I still have my Ben Pearson Super Jet like your 2nd bow.

My Parabow was factory painted a dark green, almost black.  I know this because I chipped it and the actual class was more of a whiteish grey.  Unlike later parpabows the rest eas moulded into the side and was right handed.  Later parabows were ambidextereous like your Super Jet.  If I recall correctly, the grip was a wrapped leather.   I thing mine was 45#.  Who knows...that may be my old one.

I was in Houma about a month ago for my sisters funreal.  I plan to be back there in the first week of April.

I see you are becoming somewhat of a collector.  Definition of a traditional collector...two or more trad bows.  Be careful...it is addicting.

[R.V.T.B.]

I had one just like it. K-Mart used to sell them as cheap alternatives to the more pricey Bears and Pearsons. Mine was solid, olive drab fiberglass and had black, hard rubber grip on it. You could shoot it off of either side, RH or LH. They came with a cheap twisted cord string that was worthless. I don't think it sold but for about $20.00 back then. I am guessing I bought mine around 1975 or so. I have seen two since then and they have both been broken. As it is a solid fiberglass bow both of the limbs split lenght wise for an inch or so right below the string grooves. Like the bows you have seen split when someone puts a FF string on and old bow designed for Dacron.  Mine was a 55 pounder and I remember it seemd like it puled 100 pounds.

[Leo L.]

Jack, it's possible to be your old one, but not very likely because I bought it off a guy up in Salisbury, MD.  Had it shipped down.

[PAPALAPIN]

I doubt it was mine even if you got it in Houma.

But who knows where these old bows end up and how much they travel.

I don't remember where I got it, probably a catalog order from Shakespear, but I think I got it around 1958 or 59.  Remember, I'm and old fart.