A possible civilian version of an ANJ-3 ??

[robrinay]

When I first joined VLJ I posted an eBay sale of an Abercrombie and Fitch ANJ3. It was generally agreed that it was genuine and that Abercrombie and Fitch had purchased and re- labeled WW2 stock and sold them. I’m not saying whether this one is the real deal or not but they did sell ‘real’ ones before they sold copies.

 

[Erwin]

Hey Chandler, please see some clothing [various companies] from the '70s and '80s and you can see very often Talon with a "bullet" zipper pull [with like on this AF jacket and without a horizontal _ on the bottom of the slider]. You don't need to be a zipper wizard to spot these zippers on various garments, having a lot of practice should be really helpful regarding this activity.

How can you I.D. plastic from the picture? Serious question -- not being that smartass.

I asked the person who owned the AF jacket with a label like this one about the zipper. The easiest and fastest way. I honestly doubt that all these garments have old stocks of Talon zippers from the 50s or 60s. I'll still incline that it is a jacket from the '70s. You can see what the AF label from the '60s looks like, [what is characteristic, you can see city's names, and this label design was modified later, like on this AF jacket from EBay].

Regards

 

[Southoftheborder]

I think it's seventies too.

 

[Nickb123]

No white paint stains anywhere, so likely post-war.

 

[P-47 thunderbolt]

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[P-47 thunderbolt]

Same production jacket?

 

[Erwin]

Same production jacket?

Yes, it is the same type, as we can see from the details. Just a few, pictures of the AF G1-type jacket from the '60s [AF label with city name, what was omitted on later jackets].

This is an early AF label [from jackets below] looks like, see the similarity in design to this well-known early AF label.
https://www.goodwearleather.com/images/sale/anj3_0001/label.jpg