Good Companion leather jacket?

[pilot error]

Guys....I hear this is an old English brand. Can someone shed some light on this jacket ?

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[Seb Lucas]

Can't say - 1960's looking. We had a company in Melbourne that made a very similar jacket from the end of WW2 until the late 1990's. Same pattern and old style labels. They weren't retro, they were stuck in time. Anyone finding one now would think it was an old vintage piece but it's probably only 15-20 years old.

 

[robrinay]

A quick search on ebay came up with a coat for sale with the following information in the listing- hope this helps
*' GOOD COMPANION was a brand name used by leading outdoor equipment manufacturer BLACKS OF GREENOCK *from 1933 to about 1975. The “Good Companion” model was a common leather jacket brand in the 30s-50s era and the label is unmistakeable.'

However a Google search doesn't find any items of clothing with that brand name just lots of Blacks tents and Barley Sugar sweets but it does show that Blacks were one of the first British firms to sell their tents and leisure wear through a catalogue titled 'Good Companions' - so the ebay listing may be true?

 

[pilot error]

I came up with the same Gooogle info.......I don't think it's old either, I was wondering about quality and type of leather. To me it looks like cowhide.

 

[Seb Lucas]

Well it could be old - 50 is no spring chicken in a jacket. You can't really pick a hide form photos, but I do know that many jackets like this in the UK were made out of lamb skin. A stiffer, more robust version to what you may have seen elsewhere.

 

[handymike]

I had one of these!
Does yours have buttons under the collar for the throat latch?

 

[pilot error]

Yes, handymike


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[handymike]

Where did you get it, if I may ask?
It might've been mine. It floated around ebay for awhile...
Actually made it around the world while I followed it.
Got a bit scraped up along the way too.
I think it was from the 50's...British from the Lightning Zips...
I'll try to find a link.

 

[handymike]

Here it is:

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/show...TISH-LEATHER-CYCLE-JACKET-sz-38-40&highlight=

 

[bretron]

Love it!!

 

[pilot error]

It's not your jacket handymike, yours had a quilted lining and this one doesn't . What type of leather is it?

 

[Worf]

It's not your jacket handymike, yours had a quilted lining and this one doesn't . What type of leather is it?

I was just about the say the exact same thing. Unless someone swapped out the lining... it's NOT his.

Worf

 

[handymike]

The label said "Quality Leather", so I figure it came from a cow.

 

[Edward]

Interesting jacket. Vaguely reminscent of a zip-sleeve Highwayman.... With that collar I'd have assumed it to be late 60s / early 70s, but that's my untrained eye (that, and it spread out flat like that makes it look a bit bigger than it probably really is) - I know there were wider collars like this outside the Disco era... Lovely looking patina. I remember, actually, jackets very similar to this being on sale, new, back in the mid-nineties. I wonder whether they were carry-overs still in use or reissues for the Britpop era... When Britpop was all the rage, the standard issue Perfecto style was viewed as a bit too 'metal', I recall; the cheap 70s cast-offs in the "Fight Club style" as modelled by the likes of Kurt Cobain at a time were still around, but the really hip kids were trying to look more like Stu Sutcliffe, from back when the Beatles were still rock and roll....

 

[pilot error]

Ok......I wasn't forthcoming Nd clear before is


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[pilot error]

as I was saying before my finger slipped on my Iphone.........I didn't physically have the the jacket yet. I was negotiating with the seller who didn't know what it was. It's plenty old, my best guess is 50's. Leather is dry probably calf. I'm on the fence about treatment because its just begining to develop patina. several seams are opening because the cotton thread is disintegrating, otherwise perfect. we're both a size 40. pictures to follow.........

 

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[handymike]

Go ahead and treat it. The lighter spots will come back later.
Be careful on the threads though....

 

[pipvh]

What a beauty. Late 50s, early 60s? Sort of equivalent to a Lewis Leathers Corsair (1962) but nicer. Congrats!

 

[pilot error]

Thanks..... we don't see many brands like this on this side of the pond. I'm thinking Baron Kurtz or Dinerman can maybe nail down the age by the Lightening zipper.