B-Man2
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Hey Guys
Continuing our “Getting Back to Our Roots” series of posts of original jackets, I thought I’d change gears a bit and post an original Korean War era USN Pritzker G-1 jacket. The Pritzker& Sons G-1 is a unique jacket because it was the manufactured and issued around the time of the Korean War. This particular jacket was restored by Dave Sheely a number of years ago and required some in depth restoration work to bring it back to its current condition. You've often seen me write that unless you have a jacket in hand, you can never tell how much restorative work a jacket will require to bring it back to an acceptable level or condition. I often use the analogy that it’s like stepping into the middle of a large dark puddle of water, you can never tell how deep that puddle is until you’re standing or swimming in the middle of it and then you’re committed. You can equate the depth of the water in this analogy to the amount of money it’s going to cost you to get the vintage jacket restored. In this particular case … the puddle was very deep !!!
The jacket needed a new aged mouton collar, a NOS blackened Conmar zipper, a repro Label, new period knits and finally new elastic straps under the lining to retract the vents back into place after wearing. Read all of the above as a big “Cha Ching !!”
But after all of that and almost a year of waiting, you can see the results of all of Dave’s efforts and some cash
.
So .. that brings you up to speed on this particular jacket . Here’s the photos of the restored original Korean War Pritzker.
Cheers
Continuing our “Getting Back to Our Roots” series of posts of original jackets, I thought I’d change gears a bit and post an original Korean War era USN Pritzker G-1 jacket. The Pritzker& Sons G-1 is a unique jacket because it was the manufactured and issued around the time of the Korean War. This particular jacket was restored by Dave Sheely a number of years ago and required some in depth restoration work to bring it back to its current condition. You've often seen me write that unless you have a jacket in hand, you can never tell how much restorative work a jacket will require to bring it back to an acceptable level or condition. I often use the analogy that it’s like stepping into the middle of a large dark puddle of water, you can never tell how deep that puddle is until you’re standing or swimming in the middle of it and then you’re committed. You can equate the depth of the water in this analogy to the amount of money it’s going to cost you to get the vintage jacket restored. In this particular case … the puddle was very deep !!!
The jacket needed a new aged mouton collar, a NOS blackened Conmar zipper, a repro Label, new period knits and finally new elastic straps under the lining to retract the vents back into place after wearing. Read all of the above as a big “Cha Ching !!”
But after all of that and almost a year of waiting, you can see the results of all of Dave’s efforts and some cash
.So .. that brings you up to speed on this particular jacket . Here’s the photos of the restored original Korean War Pritzker.
Cheers
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