Hi Simon
I bought one a few years ago for $75.00. That seemed a fair price to me at the time. I may have paid a premium because it fit me. Thats a lot of cowhide! They are not rare but they are getting hard to find. My father ran his own logging crew in L'Amable and somewhere we have photos of two of his men wearing them in the bush. (1949). Thats probably what happened to a lot of them.
Barry