ausreenactor
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Would kill for a week at home! Next week. ... next week...
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What jacket(s) are you wearing at the moment?
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Flightengineer
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Burt, I meant chest patch
It has painted sleeve USAF logo as in the original,cause this BR is an exact repro of the Monarch.
I saw only blue B-15C versions with a squadron patch on the chest (Mosquito, etc.), not green (If someone has info or a historycal photo I'll be grateful).
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ausreenactor
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Buzz Rickson do plenty of patched versions of their jackets. Any jacket with multiple BR numbers in the pocket has a version for each number.
Flightengineer
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I know that.
However, I would prefer to see a photo of the green original with a chest patch.
London Cabbie
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Eastman 55J14
Micawber
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Nice jacket.
I particularly like the natural backdrop and just love it when people thoughtfully place sofas in convenient places in the wilderness.
Micawber
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Looks good. BTW I've been stood here trying to hail a cab for the past 10 minutes Mister!
Imuricecreamman
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Brought the couch back to the veranda as I hate fly-tipping. Painted Cooper a-2 today.
Flightengineer
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Amazing grain on this Cooper! The leather looks great - like it's not goatskin. Once upon a time, like as maybe many others here, I had the same Cooper and the leather was smooth, without grain.
London Cabbie
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Looks good. BTW I've been stood here trying to hail a cab for the past 10 minutes Mister!
Sorry Sir,
I’m at home, posing in front of mirror taking photos of me self...
Imuricecreamman
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Yes, for the money I paid for it, it's a cool jacket. I've always been partial to jackets with interesting grain and this one has it in spades.
Smithy
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The thing is that a lot of chrome tanned goat skin can take a bit of time for the grain to really pop and often times not as quickly as something like horse or steer/cow. But with a bit of patience and wear goat can end up looking amazing.
I've posted this before but case in point being Mike's private purchase A-2 from the 1940s. It's goat and some of the best leather you'll ever see, and that's including everything, horsehide, steerhide, kangaroo, unicorn, etc, etc.
Sorry the pic is tiny but Photofucket seems to have yet again buggered things up for images on the internet, and I had to use the tiny preview pic from Google.
Technonut2112
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Caught a nice morning in the lower 50's F today. Wearing my recently acquired Swedish capeskin flight jacket. This jacket was made in the mid-late 1930's by a maker who I found to have made other aviation leather garments, and is in great wearable condition for it's age. The jacket has 2 piece sleeves / 1 piece back, and retains it's original knits and Lightning zipper. The sleeves are rotated at least 3 inches from the side seam, which is more than I've seen on most other jackets, and makes for comfortable movement:
Technonut2112
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Swedish Capeskin?? ........ Are you foolin with us Techno??
The jacket is capeskin, and was made in Sweden.... From my other post researching the Lightning zipper on the jacket:
EDIT: As a vintage leather jacket enthusiast I found it fascinating that there was an entire region in Sweden devoted to manufacturing high-quality leather garments / goods. There were many various makers there ranging from small to larger businesses that were extremely active in producing leather jackets for aviation, motorsports, etc.. Other leather garments and goods were also specialized in / produced as well, such as footwear, gloves, caps, etc... I'm very pleased to have found a relic of the past from there in wearable condition..
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Flightengineer
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The thing is that a lot of chrome tanned goat skin can take a bit of time for the grain to really pop and often times not as quickly as something like horse or steer/cow. But with a bit of patience and wear goat can end up looking amazing.
I've posted this before but case in point being Mike's private purchase A-2 from the 1940s. It's goat and some of the best leather you'll ever see, and that's including everything, horsehide, steerhide, kangaroo, unicorn, etc, etc.
Sorry the pic is tiny but Photofucket seems to have yet again buggered things up for images on the internet, and I had to use the tiny preview pic from Google.
Thank you Tim, this is informative.
But I really have not seen any Cooper with such a grain. They all looked the same, including the one I had. I sold it.
Imuricecreamman
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I've always been a fan of goatskin, but most of my goatskin jackets have had great grainy hides. Here are 2 examples in black and Brown.
