Bayers Company - Adolph Bayers
| Birth place or City of origin: | Truscott |
| State of origin: | TX |
| Last known City: | Truscott |
| Last known State: | TX |
| Start/Birth date: | 1912 |
| Death/End date: | 1978 |
Adolph Bayers was born on October 26, 1912, in Knox County, Texas, the youngest of seven children. He worked as a machinist and die-maker in the U.S. Navy (on the USS Kittyhawk) before turning more fully to making bits, spurs, and knives. He produced bits and spurs for about 40-plus years, from the early 1930s into the 1970s. Bayers died in 1978, at age 69. His last known workshop / residence was in Gilliland, Texas (sometimes confused with nearby Truscott, but Gilliland was his home). When he died, much of his workshop and personal collection were donated to the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, TX.
Bayers was especially known for forging spurs from a single piece of steel, rather than welding parts together making his spurs very strong, durable, and valued by working cowboys. He numbered his spur designs with even style numbers and bits with odd numbers. His pieces were hand-stamped with “BAYERS” or “A. F. BAYERS” plus the style number and he kept very detailed pattern records, order books, sketches, original drawings and ledgers of his work which author J. Martin Basinger compiled into a multi-volume work called Artistry in Silver and Steel: The Adolph Bayers Legend.
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Below: John Wayne's Personal Bohlin Spurs.
Price realized: $25,300.
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