I have an old Bear Archery Quiver that has a number of pins and medals from the Virginia Bowhunters association. I inherited them from an old friend who at one time lived in Virginia. Does anyone know when these given

That quiver looks like a Bear Archery Texan quiver which was made from 1951 to 1956 with the leather strip on top with the diamond shaped cut outs and the leather concho, and the Indian in the canoe. After 1956 I believe the Texan quiver went from a concho to a buckle. I would guess the medals are from the same era ( years ).

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The VBA (Virginia Bowhunters Association) was organized in 1941, so the medals likely go back a ways. The medals are very 1950- 1960 looking, but getting an exact date would be tough. I love those things, especially when shown on a quiver....as was done quite often back then. Very nice inheritance that has a story behind it for sure.

http://vbarchers.com/about-the-vba/tradition/history-of-the-vba

Thanks. My buddy's name was Wilbur Johnson. I worked for him and we became best friends and hunting buddies in the early 1980's. He had an earlier career with International Harvester and ran one of their stores in Virginia at some point. He would be in his late 80's now. He could tell some tales, one of which was being a friend of Patsy Cline. I was never sure which ones were facts. When he died and I found the quiver, complete with a Solarcane bottle in which I assume he kept powder, along with the medals I had to believe that his talks about past archer exploits were fact. I also have his bow, a recurve with oak leaves and acorns carved in the riser. Unfortunately I had it refinished some years ago and the bowyer's name was lost.

Nice bow. And nice because it was your friends.

I am pretty sure that bow is a fasco phantom. Mr. Fred Anderson may be able to tell you something about it.

I have hundreds of these medals picked up while collecting old NFAA awards and medals. My earliest dated medal is a sterling silver piece dated 1940 with O.A. and an arrow. They became fashionable as archery snowballed after WWII. The use of animal heads and such are 1950s through 1970s. The earliest dated one I have with "instinctive" is 1959. I have a number of neat Penn. State Archery Association dating back to the late 1940s. The could be picked up on @*#& quite reasonable at one time but nowadays folks think they are gold plated and more challenging to acquire. There are literally thousands out there and make nice collectables and framed displays. I sure miss the old days on @&*%. :)

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