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A Guide to dating Talon Zippers (updated and revised)

tmitchell59

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This an interesting war time zipper found on this red, White and Blue Forty Below jacket.

Note the V for victory on the pull, pot metal. This is the first use of this U shaped Talon stop box. Subsequent examples have Talon down the middle until c.1950 when the name was dropped.

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