Help with mens boots...turners...are these vintage? date help

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Those are very weird. The cowboy boot heel suggests these are intended for riding but I have never seen a boot like that before. I am guessing they are from the 1970s.
 
They look sort of like a logger decided to become a cowboy so he had his logging boots resoled and heeled!
The 'shelf' or sole edge doesn't hold up spurs, they rest on the top of the heel area. I don't know what to say... I have never seen anything like them before. The neolite top lift is a post-war material - very popular in the 1950s - 60s, so they might be a bit older. Neolite begins to disappear from use in the 1970s, so the boots might be 1950s/60s.
 
They are ropers and some people wear their spurs on their heels, some below their heels - it depends on your riding style and how you hold your heels when riding although I've never seen anyone rest their spurs on the sole itself so I don't think that is why it sticks out.
 
Here is an auction for a black pair of Ariat lace up ropers on E-bay... 110266443299

Maybe someone had the heels on these boots done higher because they were short and didn't want to feel it. :)
 
similar to ariats but they got their styling from the old time cowboys yes?



If they are custom made someone may have had them made higher so they themselves would appear taller. Or these may have belonged to a woman (guys usually wear non lacing Ropers) - either way the tongue is there to protect the boot and add padding for spur leathers to go over the front of the foot.
 
I picked up a pair, similar in design, in Baker City, Oregon.

As near as I can tell, it's a classic design.

The stamping appears to be pretty new. I would suggest, that these are recent boots.

In my research, I came across the name of "White's".

But my search on eBay came up with very little, other than that they are expensive! :/

I sold mine for $45, in my antique mall space.

Around Baker City, Oregon, everyone wears them!

Sandi

P.s, www.turners.com
 
Hey I have seen these in person and the first thing I thought of was Whites too. My friend and her hubby wear those and they are really expensive. Well at least I think so. They look a lot like them but they aren't.
So now I am confused if the heal cap is neolite can they even be recent? I don't know much about them but I didn't think they were modern.
And around here a lot of the real cowboys wear lace up boots. Even quite a few of the real old ones I find lace up. I don't know to much about the cowboy scene but through the years of sorting out estates I've found that real working ranches estates you see a lot of the lace up boots and its the rodeo riders and folks that just ride that seem to have the slip on boots. Thats just purely observation though :)
 
Could also be a California thing where the gals wear the lace ups and the guys wear slip-ons. We've got a boot here for everything it seems...
 
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