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Main Boards => Trad History/Collecting => Topic started by: horatio1226 on July 19, 2010, 06:55:00 PM
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I have an older recurve. It looks like a Shakespeare to me. The markings are as follows
30-22336
30x-28"
I can only make out part of the manufacturers decal, but it appears to be a deer.
the limb is marked "Special" with an arrow going through it. Below that it is marked
No.730-4'-10"
Thanks in advance for the help.
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You know better than to do this without pics! :nono:
Not that I would know, I just wanna see! :D
Killdeer
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My camera broke and my wife is on vacation, not that she would let me use it anyway! :banghead:
It looks like an old Shakespeare. Medium brown wood riser and brown glass over what I believe to be maple. Sorry Killie... thats all I got!
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I believe it to be a Red Wing.Did they make bows for somebody else. That might explain the different decals.
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Horatio - its sounds like a Ben Pearson Special 31#er @ 28
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Thank you!
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We'll all be just guessin' 'till we see pics
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My guess is that your bow is a Pearson Special. The number 730 is the model number. The numbers 30-22336 are the serial number. These numbers are in the Pearson style.
Ray
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Horatio...I'd like to see pics if you get em taken at a later time.
You just gotta love the older bows!
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The numbers definitely aren't Shakespeare's style.Pearson sounds like a good bet.
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I have had 3 they are Ben Pearson Specials,,good bows Dick
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I agree, sounds like a Pearson Special.
The weight is marked by the AMO conventions and it should scale 32-33# @ 28. The standards state manufacturers are "supposed" to mark a bow 30# if it's 29-31 and mark it 30x if it's 32-33. The pattern repeats going up or down.