Thanks everyone. I found some great threads and perfect answers on the history/collecting forum as suggested. Tru-Oil seems to be the masters' choice, so I'll be tracking some down ASAP. (Who'd have thought to apply it with a coffee filter? Amazing!)
This is an "awesome" website; a sincere, if atypical compliment from this 66 year-old archery re-discoverer.
I'd shot semi-serious-recreationally from 1952 into the late-mid-'60s when other pursuits and interests drew me off in other directions, then briefly did a little more shooting in the very early 1970s, after which time my equipment lay in storage for some 30-odd years.
I got back into the sport almost by accident after my wife foolishly pressed me last December to decide on a Christmas present. I really couldn't think of anything I needed. Then, for some reason after all those years, I arbitrarily seized upon, "a new bow!" (There was no way I was going to be able to shoot my 1964, 55# Polar after all those years.)
A week later I had a new, 40# Martin X200, a dozen Gold Tip Classics, quiver, bow case, etc., etc. Joined a local club within the month, and was off and running! My wife had created a monster!
Before buying the new bow, I'd begun net surfing and was aware of the virtually unlimited access it afforded to archery stuff. **** auctions constantly were popping up on my web searches and before long I'd joined **** and PayPal and, without fully realizing that an obsession was taking hold, I found that I was searching in earnest for a bow that might recapture the "old glory days."
Back in the '60s, when I barely was able to afford the Polar I had bought at a local pro-shop from a kind merchant