Tex Tan Historians - Care to Help identify a saddle

[Five]

The seller knows nothing about saddles - Inheirited. 

What year was this carving popular?

What type of tree was usually used?

And just for fun the approximate retail price the saddle sold for, 

I am going through my old western horsemen but in 2/3 of the time Tex Tan is advertising belts or stores that carry their saddles

[bruce johnson]

Going off my experience. I couldn't tell you who made trees for them - several commercial tree companies in business at the time. That rope roll and steel laced EVERYTHING was popular in the late 70s. Laced cantles only were popular for a long time. Tooling patterns on TexTans were always pretty simple and easy for a carving crew and I suspect some were press plate designs - not much of a way to date by that tooling for me. I bought a show saddle a little higher up the food chain in 1976 for $1280 and as I recall the better TexTan/Herefords were about $300-$400 less. In 1981 I bought one new and one lightly used Billy Cooks together for $2000.