shedonwanna
Active Member
Here are a few variations in name tags. No ageing applied...
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Leather Name Tags
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Anonymous
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They look great.
Do you sell them?
Which one (font) is consonsidered historically accurate?
Do you sell them?
Which one (font) is consonsidered historically accurate?
SuinBruin
Well-Known Member
No. 3 is closest to the original font used on WWII tags. See the thread below for further name tag comparisons and info.
http://www.vintageleatherjackets.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1108
http://www.vintageleatherjackets.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1108
shedonwanna
Active Member
Yes, I do sell for $7.50 each and often throw in one for free with purchase of a squadron patch. All of these fonts were available during the 1940s and represent the variety of fonts I have seen on vintage tags. The 4th tag uses square punctuation. The last tag was made with steel stamping dies which would have been part of most machine shops. I am in the process of gathering images of vintage tags to post here
The previous thread about repro tags available prompted me to offer this post. Most of the other repro tags are using 1/4-inch alphabet stamping dies for sale by Tandy Leather - I also have these
The previous thread about repro tags available prompted me to offer this post. Most of the other repro tags are using 1/4-inch alphabet stamping dies for sale by Tandy Leather - I also have these
shedonwanna
Active Member
Here are the patches again with numbers for reference and two more examples. Number seven is a modern Time Roman font...
