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    Still any flight jacket collectors out there?

    Including at least two Henry Moore's worth hundreds of thousands which were sold for scrap bronze value. Without wishing to stigmatise it's mostly Irish travellers who have been doing it.
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    Aero Oil Pull Leather - please show pics!

    I recently sold a 2009 HWM in an oil pull midweight HH that I liked a lot. I bought a sale page one a few months ago which was like oiled suede and sent it back. This looks slightly different again though. New and old.
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    Eastman - a new direction?

    The British ones I had some cause to have contact with in the seventies were very heavy. A lot of them lived together in a large fortified house and were dealing in drugs and stolen bikes. Not just your average biker.
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    ALL REPRO R.A.F. Irvin type jackets

    I heard from the bloke I bought mine from and he says his brother in law bought it in he thinks the early nineties. He says he was too fat to wear it so it stayed in the wardrobe all this time. He may be out by a few years there though. I've been told that they only started much later in the...
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    Pre-1950s British/European sportswear and leisurewear

    I remember seeing the picture in the cinema at the time. It made a big impression on me at that young age with the heroic test pilot Jack Hawkins struggling with the problem with the plane where he can't land it. I can't remember what the problem was but I do remember the aeroplane which was a...
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    Ebay Global Postage Program

    I noticed it started to happen about two years ago when I was charged duty on an item from the US. I used to buy stuff from all over the world and was never charged until then. But now I am charged every time on items bought from there. It's because so many people were buying computers and...
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    Anyone got pics of an aero in cherry?

    As in some drunk in a pub will want to fight you because he thinks you're a woofter?
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    Eastman - a new direction?

    Clearly never seen real Hells Angels in action. Always best to head off the other way if you did.
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    Arrived yesterday: Aero 1950's Half Belt

    Nice looking jacket. I was puzzling over the hide when you said it was FQHH until you clarified where it came from. It's always a good idea to buy a lightly used one so someone else can do the break in work for you.
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    ALL REPRO R.A.F. Irvin type jackets

    Nice to be able to get all the information from the seller. That was a good point about the nylon zip feed too, mine has that does yours? Does anyone know when that changed? I reckon mine is as old as yours if not a bit older. I know it was stored just not how long it was. When did ELC start...
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    ALL REPRO R.A.F. Irvin type jackets

    Yes probably. I did spot it before I bid and tried to find out if the labels were different earlier. I've had an Aero with the wrong label on it too. But that was new.
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    ALL REPRO R.A.F. Irvin type jackets

    Yep and that's what I've been trying to work out.
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    ALL REPRO R.A.F. Irvin type jackets

    That's what I don't get about mine and why I PMed you about it last week. My label seems to be from a 1942 pattern but the jacket isn't.
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    ALL REPRO R.A.F. Irvin type jackets

    Right seen it now. I was searching Eastman completed listings and it didn't show up there. One of the mysteries of eBay us why sometimes things show in a search and sometimes not. They might think about investing some of their vast profits in bringing the site into the twenty first century. I...
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    ALL REPRO R.A.F. Irvin type jackets

    So you've got three Eastmans? How old is the early BoB? I didn't see it going through eBay. Since the vBulletin upgrade it's easy to post pictures. Just hover on the icons on the toolbar above the reply box and the blue/green square icon will come up with insert image. Then click it and choose...
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    ALL REPRO R.A.F. Irvin type jackets

    Nicely broken in jacket. It'll take me a while to get near that I should think with the bloody rain we're having here constantly. I've got a B3 which I've had for twenty years and that hasn't been worn all winter. Forecast is for colder weather at the end of the week... Thanks hippo. Do you...
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    ALL REPRO R.A.F. Irvin type jackets

    Thanks Andrew. I know you and others have said that the early ones were the best copies, so if this is one that's a result. One last thing then I'll leave it. Is the label on yours the same as this? Because this label is on the 1942 patterns on the later ones.
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    ALL REPRO R.A.F. Irvin type jackets

    You can certainly send a badly fitting jacket back to Aero and they'll make it again. It could take a long time though. AL the same. I don't know Eastman's policy there but I think any maker will exchange if it doesn't fit. Assuming no major mods. Aces High sounds more like a bespoke artisan...
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    ALL REPRO R.A.F. Irvin type jackets

    That's got a very nice colour to it. Andrew do you think it's possible that my jacket might be as old as the early Eastman of your's which I copied at the top of the page? I have no idea how long it was stored.
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    ALL REPRO R.A.F. Irvin type jackets

    Would he be able to pin down the date from some pictures and a label then? Like I said I'm not looking for anything else. But I remember Irvins in the darker fleece and friend practically lived in an original with dark fur in the early seventies. He used to wear it in the summer too and looked...

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