1930s-1940s canvas moneybelt

http://www.ebay.com/itm/281659066313
This vintage moneybelt was made in the 1930s-early 1940s. The style of pin-lock zipper with flat pull and symmetrical D shaped stops was more typical of mid-1930s manufacture, but from the period demand, I would guess this dates from the early part of WWII. It is made of canvas, with leather reinforcement and a selvedge webbing waistband.

 photo edit moneybelt_1.jpg

 photo DSCF4165.jpg

 photo DSCF4166.jpg

 photo DSCF4163.jpg

 photo DSCF4156.jpg

 photo DSCF4168.jpg

1920s-1930s Hookless zipper boot ashtray

http://www.ebay.com/itm/281666464193
BF Goodrich introduced the Zipper Boot in 1923. It was one of the earliest successful uses of the Hookless Slide Fastener. The fastener became so inseparable from the boot in these early years that the boot’s name, the Zipper came to be the generic term for what had previously been called the Hookless slide fastener. This ashtray depicts the early version of the boot, from about 1924, which features the no-hole version of the Hookless fastener.

 

 photo DSCF4153.jpg

 photo DSCF4155.jpg

A period advertisement for Hookless, showing a close-up view of the type of fastener depicted on this ashtray.  Ad shown for descriptive purposes, and is not included with the ashtray.

 photo Image47.jpg

1920s goatskin leggings with Hookless zippers

http://www.ebay.com/itm/271833931339
These vintage leggings were made in the 1920s, and are marked the Improved Standard Drawer Legging style 912, size 6. They are made of brown goatskin, with a side zipper. The zipper is an early production Hookless, produced before the patent numbers on the reverse, which, along with period advertisements for this style, would place the date of manufacture around 1924-1925. The separable bottomed zipper wasn’t invented at this point and wasn’t put into production by Hookless/Talon until early 1930. By that point, the strictly Hookless branded sliders, as found on these, had been phased out, replaced by Talon branded ones of the same shape. These leggings, of course, have the non-separable attached end, located at the calf. These are marked a size 6 and measure 4″ (8″ doubled) at the ankle, 6″ (12″ doubled) at the thigh, and 14-1/2″ long.

 photo edit leggings.jpg

 photo DSCF4120.jpg

 photo DSCF4132.jpg

 photo DSCF4130.jpg

 photo DSCF4124.jpg

 photo DSCF4122.jpg

 photo DSCF4123.jpg

 photo DSCF4126.jpg

 photo DSCF4127.jpg

 photo DSCF4128.jpg

 photo DSCF4134.jpg

1930s Talon zipper pull

http://www.ebay.com/itm/271865225987
This zipper sider and pull was made by Talon in the 1930s. It has the round holed slider which was a re-tooling of earlier Hookless labeled zippers. Many reproduction manufacturers inaccurately put reproductions of mid-1920s style Hookless marked zippers on 1930s style jackets (not to mention the separable bottomed zipper wasn’t even invented until 1930, so any solely Hookless marked zipper is entirely anachronistic for a zipper front jacket). Upgrade yours to an original Talon marked slider!

 photo DSCF4341.jpg

 photo DSCF4344.jpg

Security Bank Billings Mt. 1950s bank bag

http://www.ebay.com/itm/281687501930
This vintage bank bag was made in the 1950s for the Security Trust and Savings Bank of Billings, Montana. It is brown canvas with a silkscreen of their fantastic midcentury modern bank building, and closes with a prentice zipper.

 photo DSCF4542.jpg
 photo DSCF4543.jpg

 photo DSCF4546.jpg

1940s Des Moines Iowa Bank Bag

http://www.ebay.com/itm/271865252882
This vintage bank bag was made in the 1940s and was designed to be mailed. The hole in the pull of the Prentice zipper corresponds with a grommet so that a lock can be put through both and seal the bag when it is in the mail.

 photo edit demoines.jpg

 photo DSCF4333.jpg

1920s-1930s Hookless Zipper money bag

http://www.ebay.com/itm/281687478268
Made between 1928 and 1932, this vintage bank bag bears the stamp of the Seaside Trust Company, located in Margate, New Jersey, just down the boardwalk from Atlantic City and home to Lucy the Elephant. The bag bears a transitional double marked Hookless + Talon zipper, only produced from 1928 to 1932. There is a snap, marked YEO (presumably the manufacturer of the bank bag), through the hole of the zipper pull.

 photo edit seaside.jpg

 photo DSCF4330.jpg

 photo DSCF4331.jpg

 photo DSCF4315.jpg

 photo DSCF4316.jpg

 photo DSCF4317.jpg

1940s Yellowstone Park souvenir belt

http://www.ebay.com/itm/271791865076
This vintage belt was made in the late 1940s as a souvenir of Yellowstone National Park. It has the belt buckle commonly used on this era of studded belt. The studwork spelling out Yellowstone Park is done in rhinestones instead of the more typical solid metal studs. It is stamped on the back a size 36 and measures 32″ to the smallest hole and 37″ to the largest.
 photo _57.jpg