1939 Bow and Arrow Deer Lic......Pictures!

[tenbrook]

My wife's friend came by today to show me some of her moms archery gear from back in the 30's.

Her mom used to shoot traditional archery with Fred Bear and Ned Grumley back in Detroit.  While going through some of the stuff we came across this.  According to her mom (who is still around at 94) The day Fred Bear got "Bow and Arrow" hunting legalized in MI the three of them (Fred, Ned and her mom age 19) went out and bought hunting licenses and deer tags.  Fred got number one, Ned number two, and her number three.  Assuming Fred and Ned filled their tags that year this may be the oldest archery tag around?  

What do you think?

There are many other items including the number three 1939 license, osage bows, broadheads, arrows etc.  She left it all at my house for a few weeks so I could check it out.  I'll post more pictures in a bit.

Enjoy!        

Tenbrook

 

[AZWarts]

thats really cool. thanks for posting.

[Thumper Dunker]

Thats is just way too cool.

[Bud B.]

I'd make every effort to record conversations with her mom if her mom's health is still good. Sounds like living history waiting to be told.

Neat stuff right there.

[59Alaskan]

Very cool!

[LONGSTYKES]

Great history,very cool.

[PowDuck]

That is awesome! I look forward to following this thread to see all the other stuff.

As said above, if she's able, it would be great to talk to her and record some of her experiences.

[stujay]

Very interesting. Will check back for the other pics.

[cody94]

this is some cool stuff. i like older archery equipment/ historical artifacts, hope to see more pictures.

[kennyb]

That is just too cool! Thanks for sharing!

Kenny    

[Eric Sprick]

Very cool! Not many of those laying around I bet.

Eric

[Cyclic-Rivers]

I would love to hear her stories

[tenbrook]

Here are the rest of the pictures.

Her name was Mary Calvert and she was married to an archer named Cal Calvert.

Enjoy!

Tenbrook

 

 

 

 

 

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[kennym]

WOW!

Cody, do all you can to record all this.

Talk to her Mom if you can, this is archery treasure at its best.

[DWilhelm]

That is incredible.  Like Kenny said, find out as much info as you can before it is lost forever.

Thanks for sharing!

[kibok&ko]

thanks

[mgompf]

Very cool!

[Ricker]

That is so cool.  You're a lucky fellow to be able to hold history in your hands like that.  Thanks for sharing.