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Old 05-04-2016, 03:54 PM
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Anyone know what these are or what they are worth? or anything? Trying to figure out what they are from...






Came into my antique shop...


 

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I'll say...old Harley, leather saddlebags. Am I right?
 
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Yep,

Leather bags.
 
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Originally Posted by ChickinOnaChain
I'll say...old Harley, leather saddlebags. Am I right?
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Yep,

Leather bags.


I have to agree.


Nice bags too!


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I can't really gauge the size but I'd like to get a bag like that to use as a sissy bar bag for my Bowman sissy bar.
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Hard to tell the size but as stated they are obviously saddlebags if a pair.

So pure speculation on what you actually likely want to know. I bet they aren't official Harley bags. Further it wouldn't surprise me if they really aren't that old Either. I am thinking early 80's.


Of course I could be totally wrong and they might be the first bags the company ever made but the stamped Harley logos just feel cheap and a little off to me. But again maybe they were stamped there by William Harley himself. Not that they aren't pretty cool but they feel like something I would have seen for sale in a flea market 30 years ago.


So that is not really any help at all I guess.
 
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Butt-cloth dispensers, for when you're on the road.
Right Dickey?
 
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Originally Posted by Kayakguy
Hard to tell the size but as stated they are obviously saddlebags if a pair.

So pure speculation on what you actually likely want to know. I bet they aren't official Harley bags. Further it wouldn't surprise me if they really aren't that old Either. I am thinking early 80's.


Of course I could be totally wrong and they might be the first bags the company ever made but the stamped Harley logos just feel cheap and a little off to me. But again maybe they were stamped there by William Harley himself. Not that they aren't pretty cool but they feel like something I would have seen for sale in a flea market 30 years ago.


So that is not really any help at all I guess.
I'm guessing someone made these as well...late 70's early 80's. When I was little my Dad rode an FLH and I distinctly remember the wrist cuffs he had had the very same logo etched in them as the bottom logo on the bags pictured. He also had a kidney belt that had the same logo on the back.
 
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Mexican made Harley bags 70's vintage.
 
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They look like the one's Elvis had on his bike, that have never been found. Do they have the initials EP on the inside?
 


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