Lot 29
A Rare and Beautiful Embroidered Tom Mix Shirt
Sold
$2,750
Est.
$3,000 - $4,000
Live Auction
Brian Lebel's Old West Auction - Santa Fe, NM.
Live bidding began Jun 22, 2019 at 5 PM MDT
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ARTIST
Frank, Lester
Category
Description
A Rare and Beautiful Embroidered Tom Mix Shirt
One of Tom's personal bib front shirts with embroidered silk flowers and his famous "TM" brand on the sleeve. Made of fine gabardine by Lester Frank in Hollywood's Ambassador Hotel. One of the best we have ever seen, and rare to have the “TM” monogram.

Tom Mix (1880 - 1940). Hollywood’s first Western star, Tom Mix starred in over 290 films, almost all of which were silent movies, and almost all of which were lost in the Fox vault fire. He was wildly popular in his day, and was a bona fide major celebrity. Among his perhaps less well-known “achievements” was being a pall bearer at Wyatt Earp’s funeral, being the man who got John Wayne into the movies, being killed by his own suitcase, being portrayed by Bruce Willis in the 1988 film “Sunset,” and even getting a mention in an episode of “Downton Abbey.”
Provenance
EX: Boyd Magers collection.
Estate of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. Includes signed Certification of Authenticity from Roy “Dusty” Rogers, Jr. for the 2002 High Noon Auction.