top bit and spur makers in the world. In 1943 the business moved to Boulder, Colorado and employed 125 craftsmen. Founder Oscar Crockett died in 1949 and James
Renalde purchased the company in 1951, which then became Crockett-Renalde (CR is marked on bits and spurs). That company was liquidated in 1984. In 2001 Standley Skinner re-established the Crockett Bit and Spur Co. of Kansas City, Missouri. According to the owner of the Crockett spurs
Crockett Aluminum Spurs By DorinDa TrouTman, rmr STaff WriTer These Crockett Bit & Spur Company aluminum spurs were probably made during the years just before WWII or just after. Standley S. Skinner, grandson of Oscar Crockett who was the original
owner of the company, says on the New Crockett Bit & Spur Company website that his grandfather introduced “Airplane Metal” aluminum bits and spurs in 1938.
Beginning in 1942, aluminum was rationed and used only in the war
effort. After the end of the war in 1945, Crockett again used aluminum for a few years.
The original Crockett Bit & Spur Company began in 1920 in Kansas. By 1927 it was producing 10,000 bits and spurs and had become one of the three
in the photo, Anita Utley, of Will Rogers Saddle Company, in Mead, Washington, they are etched aluminum and marked “CROCKETT” above the shank. They are part of the antique saddle and tack collection in the store and are valued at between $65 and $125.
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