Trying to identify an A-2 maker

[jerome35]

Hello,

I try to find, without success, the maker of this Dubow A-2. Quite distinctive so, some of you may know who made it.

Thanks

 

[Pilot]

Zipper and tag:… early LOST WORLD … IMHO.

 

[jerome35]

Zipper and tag:… early LOST WORLD … IMHO.

Thanks I had doubt cause of the shape of the label and pocket's flaps. Bought it on Yahoo Japan last night.

 

[Flightengineer]

LW

 

[Juanito]

Lost Worlds, circa mid 1990s. I actually has a conversation with Stuart about the oddly shaped pocket flaps back then.

 

[jerome35]

Thanks for this good news, jacket seemed very nice quality and surprisingly very low price. Happy

 

[Micawber]

Thanks for this good news, jacket seemed very nice quality and surprisingly very low price. Happy

Congratulations! You'll have fun breaking that one in

 

[B-Man2]

Lost Worlds …. They are bullet proof. You now have a jacket for life . That thing will outlive us all

 

[Flightengineer]

Lost Worlds …. They are bullet proof. You now have a jacket for life . That thing will outlive us all

O yea, that's for sure!!! Several times I took aim at them, but when one day I accidentally saw my colleague owned LW and I took it in my own hands, I realized that I'd already worn the flak vest enough in my youth and not need it again

 

[Chandler]

I actually has a conversation with Stuart about the oddly shaped pocket flaps back then.

Oh please, do not leave us hanging on the story of THAT conversation!

 

[Juanito]

Oh please, do not leave us hanging on the story of THAT conversation!

LOL! Well, I had purchased one of the Lost Worlds A-2s, my first, in probably 1993. I ended up trading it about a year later for a well worn Cable original. I was in the market for another new jacket in 1995 or 1996 but Stuart had changed the pattern. I told him I would buy another, but not with the funny pocket flaps since I had never seen an original with such pronounced scallops. He wasn't happy, but unbelievably, he produced a photo of an original with the same pocket flaps! I don't know if it was a Dubow or not, and to this day I don't doubt it was an original but I would think it was an anomaly. Shortly after that he went back to something close to the original style and I bought another. It is the jacket seen here: https://www.vintageleatherjackets.org/threads/repro-a-2-jackets-with-hard-use-lets-see-yours.21817/

Over the past 25 years, I have owned probably eight of the LW jackets in various iterations, even one with a Scoville zipper and red and white size tag (an extremely early example), but the ones with the funny pocket flaps I would never own.

 

[Thomas.m]

Lost Worlds!!!
Because they always use wrong label on their Dubow 27798. And the curve of pocket flaps is not authentic as the original at all.

 

[Pilot]

Great craftsmanship!