What's your Holy Grail?

[contentmentfarm]

Hi Ladies,

You've probably all discussed this long before I turned up here but I am curious, what is the one thing that you would just love to find over all else?

I'll start. For me wax mannequins are the be all end all. Here's one I actually found.

Actually, for me, any pre 1950s vintage mannequin is a holy grail item!

 

[Estevan]

An original 1930s A-1 Flight Jacket is mint condition!

I know this is for the gals, but i just had to add this jacket......Sorry

 

[contentmentfarm]

Hey Steve,

I'm glad you joined in here. I'm curious about you guys too!

 

[Fletch]

I have one saxophone left to find in my lifetime. (I currently own close to two dozen.)


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This is a Conn, the model now called the "Chu Berry," in sandblast satin gold plate. It is engraved in a design done only between 1930-1932, and as a result, very rare.

(Please excuse my not being a lady. I'll not presume to speak for Estevan.)

 

[contentmentfarm]

Hey Fletch, that's a beauty! Thanks for posting it.

I guess I should have posted this elsewhere, but hey, you guys are finding it just fine here.

 

[K.D. Lightner]

I would like to find the Holy Grail....

karol

 

[kamikat]

A complete WAC uniform.

 

[ShortClara]

A 1950s Ceil Chapman dress, in my size - preferably a shelf bust with a flared skirt and in blue, to match my eyes I can probably get one as soon as I scrape together that $1000 and scour ebay!

 

[dhermann1]

41 Buick!

My Holy Grail is a 1941 Buick. Here's one belonging to our own Mr H, out in Ireland:

Here's the thread that tells the story of its acquisition:
http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=9313

This is a great thread, but I think maybe it should be moved to the Golden Age or the Observation Bar. Bartender? How say you?

 

[Dixon Cannon]

The Papa 51 'Thunder Mustang'

My reason for living!
-dixon cannon

 

[Miss Neecerie]

bartenders note:

Since this is a co-ed discussion and thus nothing that needs to be in the PR exclusively, I am moving it out to the Obs Bar.

 

[K.D. Lightner]

Barring finding the holy grail, if it exists, I would like to acquire James Dean's red windbreaker jacket, the one he wore in Rebel Without a Cause --or at least one of them, I understand there were several.

karol

 

[SamMarlowPI]

Barring finding the holy grail, if it exists, I would like to acquire James Dean's red windbreaker jacket, the one he wore in Rebel Without a Cause --or at least one of them, I understand there were several.

karol

i think it was 2 to be exact...he gave one to a friend and kept the other...no one knows what happened to the latter...

 

[K.D. Lightner]

I hope it wasn't with him when he died. His father, I read, had the clothing he was wearing on the day of the wreck burned.

karol

 

[MrNewportCustom]

I found my Holy Grail last June. . . .

. . . But now that I'm going digital, it may become permanent shelf fodder.

Time for a new Holy Grail.


Lee

 

[Mojito]

Oh, I love those Deco era wax mannequins! I'd be happy finding a vintage catalogue that illustrated them. Your find is gorgeous. I've always liked realistic wax dolls as well (although I know some folks find them a bit too eerie, as they can be so very life-like).

Can we be extravagent? I'd love to find an affordable (e.g., in a relative's cedar wood trunk!) 1920s Chanel gown with Kitmir embroidery...in perfect condition. Or a 1920s Lanvin robe de style (closest I have is a 1932 Lanvin gown with a train).

 

[leaette]

for me, a mint 50's Airstream trailer. Then I can watch the Lucille Ball movie "the long long trailer" inside of it. lol

 

[pgoat]

I don't have one major grail. just lots of little ones. Some I've found - a 1970s Wilson A2000 infield model in less than dead condition, a WWII Rodgers Sailors knife like my dad carried in the war (and which my mother made him throw out because I cut myself with it when I was 9 like they told me I would ), and a slew of vintage Ampeg V-4 and V-2 guitar amplifiers with original 7027A tube compliment, powerful enough to knock walls down.

 

[Tony in Tarzana]

A Supermarine Spitfire, hands down. Then all I'd need to do is lose about 150 pounds in order to fit in the cockpit.

Failing that, the 1938 Plymouth Coupe used in "The Big Sleep."

 

[contentmentfarm]

Oh, this is fun! Thanks for sharing all the wonderful *holy grail's*.

Mojito, I happen to have the robe du style. It's just a miniature version but it does have the JL label dated 1922.

I'm still researching but I think it was done as a sample for a customer rather than doing a full sized sample. Thought you'd appreciate it.