Weird Pocket Finds

[resortes805]

Hopefully another thread was'nt started about this, but I was inspired by the "Untiled Stuff in you Pockets Thread." What are some weird/interesting/mundane things you've discovered in the pockets of vintage garments?

 

[jkath]

I just purchased a full length white (fox, perhaps?) fur coat. When I bought it, I didn't check the pockets, but when I came home, I found a lovely glove in each one - beautiful!

 

[The Wingnut]

Pay stub from a 1st Lt. in the USAAF in '43 in the pocket of an A-4 flightsuit.

 

[magneto]

The business card of a dentist in Lincoln, Nebraska with an exchange+5 phone number. A folded old piece of White House stationery with some illegible writing (which I stuck in one of my X-thousand books for keeping, then forgot which book...) Nothing terribly interesting.

 

[Solid Citizen]

Period Threads

Finding the cut off altered pants fabric from a vintage
Hollywood style suit in the chest pocket upon delivery!

Peter

 

[Burma Shave]

silver certificate

Found a $1 silver certificate in the chest pocket of an extremely well-made glen plaid double breasted suit I found at a Washington D.C.-area Goodwill. Best-fitting suit I've ever had, and it was made in Australia decades ago for some gentleman of taste. The certificate was dated 1960-something. Like someone else said, I put it in one of my thousands of books for "safekeeping" and haven't seen it since. Maybe I'll find it in my James Agee collection someday.

 

[Salv]

My uncle gave me his single button, cream wool 50's suit that had been stored in his attic, but he forgot to remove the condom in the breast pocket...

 

[Donna Stewart]

A French one franc coin from 1944. Not exactly a pocket find, as I found it in the lining of a wool overcoat that had aquired a hole in the pocket, but close enough. Finding that coin made my day.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

One suit's pocket had a '40s collar bar made by Swank.

Another suit had two tickets from Niagara Falls (1947).

I haven't found a winning lottery ticket in a suit pocket ... yet.

 

[Mr. 'H']

My forties coat that Root helped me locate in Pasedena had a "snotty" in it. ONLY jocking - t was just a tissue....

Coooooooooooool colors tho'.

I luvit....

 

[Quigley Brown]

I found a funeral program dated 1950-something in the breast pocket of a suit. Just a short time ago I bought a late-50s sport coat. When I got home I felt a wad of folded paper in the inside pocket. Man, was I excited until I pulled it out and it was a few dozen Alley Oop comic strips wrapped with a rubber band...darn!

 

[Trickeration]

I bought a pair of vintage jeans on ebay and in one pocket I found 2 dimes. One was dated 1947, and the other, a mercury head dime, is from 1937.

 

[Michaelson]

Not exactly a pocket find, but I purchased a mint conditon pair of 12k gold rimed glasses, and found the original prescription for the lenses made by a optomitrist in Nashville dated 1936 still in the case.

Regards! Michaelson

 

[Johnny Eager]

Condoms and Phone numbers

In my adventures of collecting WWII uniforms I have found many interesting things in the pockets from these soldiers and sailors......
WWII Marine Corps Enlisted Dress Green Coat... used condom wrapper
WWII Navy Seaman's Dress Blues..... Girl's phone number on the inside of a matchbook.
WWII Navy Seaman's Dress Blues..... Girl's name and address
WWII A-2 Flight Jacket......Airman's WWII Dog Tags ..and orders to report for service in the Korean War!!!!
WWII Officer's Ike jacket from a Boeing Tech Representitive.... a theater made 20th Air Force patch inside
and a few snot rags in various WWII jackets........ Blahhhhhhhhh

 

[green papaya]

$250 cash inside the pocket of a used GI flight jacket

 

[Marc Chevalier]

:eusa_clap

 

[Wild Root]

Mr. Eager, that's fantastic!

I once found a few cool things in suits! I found a garbage bag full of suits and clothes from the 20's to the 30's in a thrift shop. It contained two three piece single breasted peaked lapel suits, one two piece of the same style, ivory linen pants, two sweater vests that were amazing, three or four collarless striped dress shirts and many other items.

One of the suits had a hand full of string, matches, a shopping list, and an old pocket knife with a broken blade (Darn it) and two ticket stubs from a show. The other suit had a pack of old gum from the 50's and a match book from the 40's. I kept the stuff in the pockets but, had to let the clothes go seeing they were all too small for me. Oh, I only paid $10 bucks for everything. This was almost 4 years ago way up in Winnipeg Manitoba.

I’m yet to find money or condoms or old phone numbers but, I haven’t stopped collecting so, anything’s possible!

=WR=

 

[jamespowers]

One of the suits had a hand full of string, matches, a shopping list, and an old pocket knife with a broken blade (Darn it) and two ticket stubs from a show. The other suit had a pack of old gum from the 50's and a match book from the 40's. I kept the stuff in the pockets but, had to let the clothes go seeing they were all too small for me. =WR=

You sure you didn't chew that gum? lol

regards,

J

 

[Marc Chevalier]

I found a garbage bag full of suits and clothes from the 20's to the 30's in a thrift shop. It contained two three piece single breasted peaked lapel suits, one two piece of the same style, ivory linen pants, two sweater vests that were amazing, three or four collarless striped dress shirts and many other items.

:eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap

 

[Baron Kurtz]

One of the suits had a hand full of string, matches =WR=

The wardrobne of a street vendor?

In the left jacket pocket of the knickerbocker suit i found about 25 cigar bands - mainly Punch.

Various snot rags and the like. A couple of funeral programs.

Found some old British money - pre-metric (before people get excited, we only went metric in the 70s) - in a jacket in Aberdeen many years ago.

A friend of mine found an engagement ring, in its box, in an overcoat pocket. I don't even want to know how sad is the story that goes along with that ring.

bk