Recent content by Charles McFarlane

Just picked this jacket up last week. Will likely sell it, but wanted to share it here as well. Overall good shape save for the collar damage. Cool to see the leather pull still with the zip. Cheers!

Good starter A-2, seemingly made from horsehide with a little break-in. https://www.ebay.com/itm/266624381813

They are rarer than hens teeth. You can basically sell them for as much as you want. When you do find them, and the seller knows what they are, they can be around $300 + and just to note -- the sample that was photographed for presale is just that, a sample. Changes will be made to the...

The buttons on the photographed sample will be replaced for the production run with the appropriate two-hole buttons used on the originals.

I thought this may interest some of you .... I have been working with Bronson for the past few months to reproduce the hard-to-find WWII jungle sweater. Now, they are available for pre-order before they are put on Bronson's website and likely sell out forever...

I'm pretty confident it will stay around for a while. The nylon was in pretty good shape and won't be under much stress. The meatball is a MASH repro decal. @OperationCoffee -- what do you mean? What do you think?

Sorry if this is the wrong place for this thread, but just wanted to share my recent project jacket. This jacket started life as an old run ATF B-10. Knits and zipper replaced with ones from MASH. Lining was replaced with parachute material and squadron patch painted by a friend. Only need to...

Received my repro Blood Chit from the seller that Ausreenactor linked to on eBay. I’m not totally unhappy with it, but it does seem to be way bigger than the original National government made chits. Those were, according to Last Hope (linked in my post on the CBI theatre website) they officially...

I found this site very helpful when it came to explaining and showing original examples of blood chits. http://www.cbi-theater.com/bloodchit/bloodchit.html I believe the ones that ausreenactor shared are the correct script and characters for the second variation of the Chinese Nationalist-made...

Thanks all! Much appreciated

Sorry if this has been covered elsewhere, but is there anyone currently making good repro fabric/silk Blood Chits? Thanks! Charles

Can you post more photos?

I would agree, definitely a copy made for the civilian market. It can get confusing as often times the companies making the civilian market jackets were the same making military contract jackets and made them with the same materials, and used very similar tags. I’d say the two giveaways are the...

He is third from the left three rows down.

Recently picked up this grouping of Captain (later Major) Henry A. Borfitz. I bought the grouping from the man's son along with some of his own Air Force flight bags. The MA-1 is a size Large, but the label is pretty washed out. Unfortunately, the pocket bags are blown out and the zipper missing...