Show Us Your Purchases....GUYS !

[Nick Charles]

YES, a nice forest green color. Hopefully it will be here today or tomorrow.

 

[scotrace]

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MB5 - I sold several boxes of those about 5 years ago. That company made several styles, and mine were all "Mark Twain." I believe they brought about $150 per box. I was stunned.

 

[herringbonekid]

....or Pencil lead.

It's the graphite, you know!

...maybe it was a pencil i was thinking of, not a candle. makes more sense.

hell...just rub ANYTHING on it Baron.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

hell...just rub ANYTHING on it Baron.

The movie There's Something About Mary teaches otherwise.

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[Baron Kurtz]

...maybe it was a pencil i was thinking of, not a candle. makes more sense.

hell...just rub ANYTHING on it Baron.

Anything phallic, it would seem ...

ouch!

bk

 

[Wild Root]

The movie There's Something About Mary teaches otherwise.

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Oh man... you guys!lol

=WR=

 

[Baron Kurtz]

A new 30s/40s shirt ...

With that pointed collar we all love. Close up of label gives best indication of fabric colour.

And a couple of features. The button-bearing part is backed with linen.

bk

 

[herringbonekid]

nice shirt. looks very like some 40s european ones i have.

 

[MB5]

I just picked this up. Any idea on the age?
It's probably just an 80s skinny tie, but I liked the design.

There is no liner and the tag reads:

60% ACETATE
40% RAYON
RN 1727[Degree Symbol]

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Early 1960s.

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[The real Henry]

Ebay and flea market finds!

Here is a huge tie lot I won a month ago on ebay(Some keepers there, right?):

Regards,
Henrik

 

[The real Henry]

And here are my flea market finds of today:

A vintage shaving set with a bakelith razor and accessories. I got all in a wooden box with a mirror that says "Kammkasten"(which means comb box). Looking at the font and the style of the box I'd says the set is from the 1920s or earlier. Could that be?

I also got this silver cufflinks which I date to the 30s or 40s:

Regards,
Henrik

 

[Wild Root]

NICE STUFF! I'm happy for you Henry! There are a few ties in the lot that may be 70's but, the bulk of the lot are 40's and early 50's... not bad my friend!

=WR=

 

[Fletch]

Here are 3 dozen of a lot of about 60 ties I won off eBay in October for $125. Among them (first picture, 2nd from right, bottom row) is, I think, the butt-ugliest tie ever to cross my doorstep. Silver-gray, red, and lavender? With a design that looks like, I dunno, chains or ropes or something?

And! a J. Crew windowpane tweed coat in a very authentically 1940s cut. $45 second hand and not a mark on it.

 

[ramblinBOB]

I just won this on the 'bay a couple of hours ago - I should have it midweek:

Close-up of the fabric and button fly:

man the english sure do have fine taste

 

[Fletch]

Better than whoever paired up that hankey and tie with the suit.

Here, try a couple of mine:

 

[herringbonekid]

got some new shoes by Jeffrey West:

they are quite pointy. the leather has a pre-aged wrinkly look. note they have a toe cap style with the mysterious 'gap' similar to these 30s shoes:

 

[Fletch]

Sharp, Kid - very sharp.

Maybe you can help me with a British term. I've heard spectators called "co-respondent shoes" – not as in reporters, but as in the gigolos you used to hire to "prove adultery" with your wife as preamble to divorce. Anything to that?

 

[herringbonekid]

i don't know about any link to the gigolo term, but yes, 'correspondents' is just the british term for 'spectators'. as in 2 corresponding colours.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Cool shoes, HBK. I've always liked that toecap treatment ...

bk