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thunderw21 said:
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Widebrim said:This just can't be for real! I have never seen a Dali' tie sell for that much!:eusa_doh: I have two of them, and spent a total of about $110 for both. Just because it has uranium graphics? Somebody please school these people!
Marc Chevalier said:Ask Art Fawcett about his friend who collects Dali ties. The guy has been doing it for many years, and he still isn't done. His goal is to have pristine examples of every Dali tie design ever produced. How many designs were produced? No one's sure, but the number is certainly over a hundred.
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+1jamespowers said:I prefer to collect the "female form" ties to Dali thanks.
anon` said:+1
Especially for that kind of coin!
Widebrim said:This just can't be for real! I have never seen a Dali' tie sell for that much!:eusa_doh: I have two of them, and spent a total of about $110 for both. Just because it has uranium graphics? Somebody please school these people!
Quigley Brown said:I have two, also, but luckily was able to get them for a quarter each at a yard sale...
Marc Chevalier said:Pleated ties began appearing in the U.S. mass market in the 1940s. The first ones were wider than Thunder's --nearly 4 inches wide-- and they were rather high end: made of silk, not rayon, and sold under Saks Fifth Avenue's house label.
Apparently, the high end customers weren't too interested, but lower end folks were. Brighter, cheaper pleated ties made of rayon began to hit the market, and they hung around for about 5 years ... until ties became so narrow that they couldn't hold pleats!
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Widebrim said:Okay, here is mine, c.'54-55. It is just a tad over 2 1/2" at its widest, and feels like it is made of rayon.
And for those who think that the "Insert small end here" gizmo didn't exist until the '60s, think again...
Sorry that the photos are not larger...
Trying to make your own? Now that sounds like a project!thunderw21 said:Was recently looking for material to make a 'reproduction' of a pleated tie and couldn't find anything suitable. They just don't make rayon like they use to.