1950s Buco J-24 horsehide leather motorcycle jacket

Posted on July 21, 2015 by Spencer Stewart

http://www.ebay.com/itm/271935645735
This vintage jacket was made in the early 1950s in Detroit, Michigan by the Joseph Buegeleisen Company (Buco) out of horsehide. It is their J-24 D-Pocket model motorcycle jacket. From the style of stop box on the main zipper, with its wide ribs, but without the Talon name, this one was made between about 1952 and 1957. The jacket has a D-pocket map pocket with a rounded cornered cigarette pocket. It has zipped sleeves, snapped lapels, snapped belt loops for an external belt, bars on the epaulettes, zippered side storage, a handwarmer pocket, and bi-swing shoulders. At some point, it appears the original owner either broke the main zipper or gained weight, and added snaps, which are offset from the original zip position.

Chest (pit to pit): 21″ (doubled = 42″)
Shoulder to shoulder: 18″
Sleeve (shoulder to cuff): 25″
Length (base of collar to hem): 23-1/2″

1950s-1960s Sulka plaid bomber jacket

Posted on July 17, 2015 by Spencer Stewart

http://www.ebay.com/itm/400952342075
This vintage jacket was made in the late 1950s – 1960s. It is a classic post-war bomber jacket style, with a knit waistband and cuffs, and handwarmer pockets. The jacket is red and black buffalo plaid, with a faux-mouton collar. It has a quilted lining, with the sleeve linings marked Sulka.

Chest (pit to pit): 20″ (doubled = 40″)
Shoulder to shoulder: 17″
Sleeve (shoulder to cuff): 24″
Length (base of collar to hem): 23-1/2″

1940s Grais Sportswear leather half-belt jacket

Posted on June 19, 2015 by Spencer Stewart

http://www.ebay.com/itm/400938380661
This vintage leather jacket was made by by Grais – Sportswear with Grace in the 1940s. It has a half-belt, pleated back, a surcoat length cut, a tunneled, elasiticized belt with a single button closure, a blacked out Talon of mid-late 1940s manufacture, and ring pull chain zippers on the dual breast pockets. The cargo pockets are flapped and there are buttons on the cuffs.

Chest (pit to pit): 20″ (doubled = 40″)
Shoulder to shoulder: 17″
Sleeve (shoulder to cuff): 24-3/4″
Length (base of collar to hem): 27-1/2″

Late 1940s H Bar C gabardine belt-back western suit

Posted on June 19, 2015 by Spencer Stewart

http://www.ebay.com/itm/400940800660
This vintage suit was made in the mid-late 1940s by H Bar C of California. It is made of wool gabardine, with a waist length cossack style jacket, with a half-belt back, handwarmer pockets, breast pocket and talon main zipper. The pants are western in style.

Chest (pit to pit): 21-1/4″ (doubled = 42-1/2″)
Shoulder to shoulder: 18″
Sleeve (shoulder to cuff): 22-1/2″
Length (Base of collar to hem): 24-1/2″

Waist (side to side): 15″ (doubled = 30″)
Inseam: 29″
Outseam: 39″
Rise: 10″

Trade Bank and Trust Co. deposit bags

Posted on June 19, 2015 by Spencer Stewart

http://www.ebay.com/itm/271901896876

http://www.ebay.com/itm/400937790898
This vintage bank bag was made by Rifkin with their 1932 patent Arcolock. This is an early variant with a rare no-hole Talon zipper with D stops on the end. Earlier examples are made of canvas, while this one feels like a heavyweight nylon. Talon switched to a solid stop from the D-Stop in the 1950s, and Rifkin switched to a design with a windowed slot later on, so I would put the manufacture of this to the mid 1940s.

WWII USMC vest – China souvenir embroidery

Posted on June 14, 2015 by Spencer Stewart

http://www.ebay.com/itm/271900896843
This vintage vest was made in the late war period. It is green cotton with an alpaca pile lining. It has a mid-late 1940s round hole Talon zipper, and a full embroidered back with a dragon and the years 1945-1946.

Chest (side to side): 21″ (doubled = 42″)
Length: 22″

1950s W.B. Place deerskin jacket

Posted on May 31, 2015 by Spencer Stewart

http://www.ebay.com/itm/400926470278
This vintage jacket was made in Hartford, Wisconsin in the late 1950s-1960s by W.B. Place & Co, Deerskin Tanners, makers of Gloves and Jackets. It is made of deerskin in a classic utility jacket style. It has patch pockets, a square front and back yoke and a main Talon zipper.

Chest (pit to pit): 22″ (doubled = 44″)
Shoulder to shoulder: 17-1/2″
Sleeve (shoulder to cuff): 25″
Length (base of collar to hem): 24-1/2″

1930s Canvas Backpack

Posted on May 26, 2015 by Spencer Stewart

http://www.ebay.com/itm/271872414732
made in the 1930s. It is made of canvas, with taped seams, heavy webbing straps, riveted to the bag, and with a buckle closure on one side to make taking the bag off and putting it on easier. There is a zippered pocket with an early style round hole Talon zipper, a re-tooling of earlier Hookless dies. The name Robert Brunelle is written inside the top of the bag.

1930s-1940s canvas moneybelt

Posted on May 26, 2015 by Spencer Stewart

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.

1920s-1930s Hookless zipper boot ashtray

Posted on May 26, 2015 by Spencer Stewart

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.

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.

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1950s Buco J-24 horsehide leather motorcycle jacket

1950s-1960s Sulka plaid bomber jacket

1940s Grais Sportswear leather half-belt jacket

Late 1940s H Bar C gabardine belt-back western suit

Trade Bank and Trust Co. deposit bags

WWII USMC vest – China souvenir embroidery

1950s W.B. Place deerskin jacket

1930s Canvas Backpack

1930s-1940s canvas moneybelt

1920s-1930s Hookless zipper boot ashtray