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Hello Lounge friends here is the chronicle of a 60+ year old Horse Hide police jacket from a flea-market in California to it's current location and condition. I did not know much about the Taubers brand prior to purchasing this one. Part of the reason for the purchase was to expand knowledge and grow interest in other makers, designs, etc.
Here is the link to the original ad where Technovox had it up for sale, with some nice photos of the condition I received it in: https://www.thefedoralounge.com/thr...ighway-patrol-motorcycle-jacket-40-42.100127/
From his own description: a vintage black Taubers Horsehide Highway Patrol jacket. Features the early “Nob Hill Genuine Horsehide Taubers of California" label. Also features rare spread collar, interior knit cuffs with exterior snaps, badge holder, hand warmer pockets with Conmar diamond pull zippers. Both handwarmer diamond pull zips work fine. Two interior pockets- one features brass ring pull zipper. All belt loops are intact. Leather is simply beautiful…wonderful vintage patina, supple, no tears or rips, but with the appropriate gentle scrapes and wear for a jacket of this age. The bad- MAIN ZIP DOES NOT WORK- will need replacing. And the lining is a bit worn, and the left interior sleeve has come undone- will need re-stiching at where it joins the shoulder seam.
So given the description (and very nice price) I took the shot and bought it as is, knowing the main zipper would need replaced. For this I took the jacket up toa leather shop in northern Iowa would put in a #10 YKK dull brass zipper, and matched up the holes as best they could per my request. This was done pre-corona-virus, so they had quite a bit of time to work on it.
I did not take very good shots of the jacket after I retrieved it with the new zipper - rainy days in early May and hard to get decent light. After I got it able to be zipped up, I gave it a twin-wash cycle of Woolite on the delicate setting on my washing machine and let it air out for 3 days. It was indeed rather a dirty piece at least inside. The washing helped tremendously. I have only a few poor quality photos of it's condition at that time:
At this point I decided it was time to try out Dena - at Leather Care Specialists in Illinois. I called her and we discussed the jacket, which she was happy to work on. It's only about 1.5 hours from me so I drove it down to her. She has a nice shop, and plenty of experience working on jackets of all types. She really liked the new zipper, as well as the obvious quality of the 60 year old Horsehide of this jacket.
We set up all the details and I left it in her care. Earlier this week, I got a call from her indicating it is ready to go. So I made the trip there and picked it up. How does it look? See my first reply to this thread:
Here is the link to the original ad where Technovox had it up for sale, with some nice photos of the condition I received it in: https://www.thefedoralounge.com/thr...ighway-patrol-motorcycle-jacket-40-42.100127/
From his own description: a vintage black Taubers Horsehide Highway Patrol jacket. Features the early “Nob Hill Genuine Horsehide Taubers of California" label. Also features rare spread collar, interior knit cuffs with exterior snaps, badge holder, hand warmer pockets with Conmar diamond pull zippers. Both handwarmer diamond pull zips work fine. Two interior pockets- one features brass ring pull zipper. All belt loops are intact. Leather is simply beautiful…wonderful vintage patina, supple, no tears or rips, but with the appropriate gentle scrapes and wear for a jacket of this age. The bad- MAIN ZIP DOES NOT WORK- will need replacing. And the lining is a bit worn, and the left interior sleeve has come undone- will need re-stiching at where it joins the shoulder seam.
So given the description (and very nice price) I took the shot and bought it as is, knowing the main zipper would need replaced. For this I took the jacket up toa leather shop in northern Iowa would put in a #10 YKK dull brass zipper, and matched up the holes as best they could per my request. This was done pre-corona-virus, so they had quite a bit of time to work on it.
I did not take very good shots of the jacket after I retrieved it with the new zipper - rainy days in early May and hard to get decent light. After I got it able to be zipped up, I gave it a twin-wash cycle of Woolite on the delicate setting on my washing machine and let it air out for 3 days. It was indeed rather a dirty piece at least inside. The washing helped tremendously. I have only a few poor quality photos of it's condition at that time:
At this point I decided it was time to try out Dena - at Leather Care Specialists in Illinois. I called her and we discussed the jacket, which she was happy to work on. It's only about 1.5 hours from me so I drove it down to her. She has a nice shop, and plenty of experience working on jackets of all types. She really liked the new zipper, as well as the obvious quality of the 60 year old Horsehide of this jacket.
We set up all the details and I left it in her care. Earlier this week, I got a call from her indicating it is ready to go. So I made the trip there and picked it up. How does it look? See my first reply to this thread:
