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  1. HarpPlayerGene

    Post New Hats Here!

    Thanks, guys! I'm surprised I like that shape as much as I do - it's unique among my lids - but I do! :D
  2. HarpPlayerGene

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    I got this very old (teak?) deck chair yesterday for $15! Grey'd out by weather but all there and totally solid. The brass hardware is so heavy-duty. 'Been looking for one like this for a while. While I'm at it, here are a couple yard sale scores that are arranged around the fire pit...
  3. HarpPlayerGene

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    That's a TREMENDOUS score, PoohBang. I love it when one of us gets a cool old item like that. -------------- I've seen my share of these valets in op' shops, but they're usually very rickety and priced around $25ish. I bought this one today for $4 and it's stable.
  4. HarpPlayerGene

    Pendletons and Other Plaids of the Past...

    Yep,.. I have a hunch this one goes wayyy back. Could easily be somewhere in the '30s to '50s range, methinks. Of course, I'd like to think it's the earlier part of that range but haven't found solid evidence...
  5. HarpPlayerGene

    Ebay Hats: Victories, Defeats, Gripes & Items of Interest

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  7. HarpPlayerGene

    Post New Hats Here!

    Cavanagh Fifty I got in a trade with rlk. Thick, substantial, yet finely finished felt. Decided on a couple of shallow side dents. I could wear this hat almost every day...
  8. HarpPlayerGene

    What are you wearing today??

    Great shots, folks! Western Wednesday for me. Wearing a Cavanagh Fifty I got from rlk and a No-Name vintage jacket... Side adjustments:
  9. HarpPlayerGene

    What are you wearing today??

  10. HarpPlayerGene

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    I'm thinkin' walnut - - but it holds its own next to the teak lamp! Needs a little TLC at the bottom of the legs. Looks like it took on some water at some point, but it's superficial and a little oil/stain will blend it right back.
  11. HarpPlayerGene

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    Some months ago, I longed for a '50s magazine rack just like this one, but it went for crazy money on Ebay. Yesterday, at a yard sale, I got one for $3.00!
  13. HarpPlayerGene

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    Super job, Shangas!!
  14. HarpPlayerGene

    crawl space find, montgomery ward pwer house chore jacket‏

    Yeah, but didn't you say the house dates to the '40s? I know someone could have owned the jacket since 1929 and then left it under the house in 1945 or so, but that's unlikely given the condition. I think you've successfully narrowed it to within one decade or less. Well done on the find and the...
  15. HarpPlayerGene

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    Yep, I've got some 0000 steel wool I use on stuff like that. Even works on the frets and fingerboards of my guitars (with lemon oil). When I get around to properly cleaning that old office chair, I'll get the fine steel wool out. For something like the hardware on that strop I'd combine some...
  16. HarpPlayerGene

    Pendletons and Other Plaids of the Past...

    Yep, that sleeve gimmick really 'casual-izes' it. And yeah, the lapels are just cut that way but the whole thing is lightweight like a shirt, unlined, and not too fuzzy like some wool plaids can be.
  17. HarpPlayerGene

    Hat Advertising

    As a recovering Ad Guy, I'd say it's just that the incredibly high investment associated with paying top talent and producing a quality spot -- and the broadcast media flighting itself - - would mean they'd have to sell about six hundred thousand top end hats to break even. Really. Little...
  19. HarpPlayerGene

    Pendletons and Other Plaids of the Past...

    I'm still on the lookout for the patched elbow style but here's one of the jacket types I scored last year for about $4.00. They got the sleeves right on this one, thank goodness.
  20. HarpPlayerGene

    Pendletons and Other Plaids of the Past...

    GOOD one (or should I say, dozen), 'vic!!
  21. HarpPlayerGene

    Pendletons and Other Plaids of the Past...

    That IS weird. My comment was about a couple I've picked up where the sleeves just needed to be 'relaxed' about a half inch - - but now that I think about it, I did see a Pendleton once in a Goodwill and it had ridiculously short long sleeves. Otherwise it was proportioned as a medium but yeah...
  22. HarpPlayerGene

    1940's Whippet 6 7/8 - 7

    I'd tolerate it - and fix it up - but I've already got one in that scheme.
  23. HarpPlayerGene

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    That's the way I think too. I looked into "J. B. Sciver Co." a bit and found some interesting furniture made by that outfit back 'in the day'. I found several examples of big, beefy tables (a LOT like the one in my office peaking into the picture on left) made of gumwood and walnut and featuring...

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