Dan Post · Identification & Dating
Construction / ID tells
- Marks: Inner shaft and/or outsole “Dan Post” / “DP”; style codes often
DPplus digits. Photograph both the tongue/shaft stamp and the sole. - Comfort system: A soft cushioned insole / footbed is a marketing hallmark — useful when the boot is off, not a decade stamp by itself.
- Exotics vocabulary: Smooth vs full-quill ostrich, caiman belly vs hornback, teju lizard, shark — grade and cut drive look and price. Construction is production Goodyear-welt / cemented variants depending on SKU.
- Decorative tops: Shaft stitch is often colorful compared with conservative mid-century Nocona/Justin ranch pairs, but that look is not unique to the brand.
- Sibling brands: Do not reattribute a Laredo or Dingo pair as Dan Post from silhouette alone.
- Not a tell: Celebrity endorsement / NFL partnership campaigns — cultural noise, not construction ID.
Dan Post: looking up a number
Keep any letter prefix when searching the style number. Match the number to the specific material and toe version, not just the product name. Dan Post’s own Pershing product Q&A, for example, identifies DP4805 as a square-toe option; this does not decode unrelated numbers.
Open the manufacturer’s website
Dan Post Pershing: manufacturer product information and Q&A
Date-code examples from collectors
A Dan Post dating discussion interprets separate 11 and 91 marks as November 1991. Use it as an example to compare with the complete stamp, not as a universal rule for every Dan Post era. Do not infer a date merely because a number can be read as a month and year.
Keep the DP prefix and any suffix when present. Photograph the origin mark as well as the style. A manufacturer identification or dated catalog can support an entry when the date stamp is absent or ambiguous.
A missing search result means the number is not documented here yet. It does not establish that the boots are counterfeit.
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