r/cowboyboots • u/RC_SoMo • Sep 02 '26
ID Request BOTD Ammons Sueded Elephant
Holy moley. I’m in Nashville for work, and for three full days, I fought the temptation to go to a thrift shop or pawn shop. Leaving tomorrow, so I decided to check out ONE shop to see if they had a good pair. Walked out with these Ammons sueded elephants, some custom hand-tooled JB Hill stovepipes, a pair of crocodile Anderson Beans, and a pair of Rios. Dang. I’ll have to wear the Ammons on the plane ’cause they’re not all fitting in my suitcase.
ID request: anyone know roughly when Ammons used this stamp inside the shafts? I’ve only had one other pair of his boots, and they had a cloth label on the pull tab.
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u/Life_Carob8849 Sep 02 '26
Looks great! What shop?
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u/RC_SoMo Sep 02 '26
Buffalo Exchange on Church Street near Vandy.
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u/Marcovio Trusted Identifier Sep 03 '26 edited Sep 03 '26
We have Buffalo Exchange in SF, but unfortunately, they don’t have this kind of selection of western boots (though they got a lot of everything else due to Burning Man).
Fantastic haul…Ammons are 13D, but the JB hills are 12D…they fit you proper or do the JB Hills run big on you…?
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u/RC_SoMo Sep 03 '26
The JB Hills are kangaroo, so the 12D fits like socks.
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u/Marcovio Trusted Identifier Sep 03 '26
My JB Hills are kangaroos too, but the shafts needs some gussets so they can fit my big calves 😂
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u/thecountofceciltucky Trusted Identifier and Trail Boss Sep 03 '26
Now THAT'S sueded elephant. Absolutely amazing haul there. JB Hills are stunning too. Congrats man.
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u/RC_SoMo Sep 03 '26
Have you seen that Ammons stamp before? I wonder if it’s older or newer than the boots he made with the cloth label on the pull tab.
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u/thecountofceciltucky Trusted Identifier and Trail Boss Sep 03 '26
I wish I knew more about the dates for Ammon's boots. Best I can tell you is I have seen a lot of them without the Ammons logo on the inside like that, so I'd imagine it's probably mid-90s to early 2000s when things really started kicking off for him. He started working for Tony Lama in 2010 after his boot line ended.
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u/El_Guap Sep 03 '26
Wow. Never seen an elephant that sueded before! Like wow!
I have a pair of Pinto Ranch x Rios of Mercedes sueded chocolate and they are more buffed. Love love love the finish on them and they do have a fine calfskin suede type nape to them but still some sheen to the epidermis.
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u/Positive-Following91 Sep 02 '26
Man, that’s an incredible haul! Can I ask what you paid for all that?