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Cal-Leather

Rick Dalton

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Here’s an interesting set of differences. Adjacent sizes (40 and 42 tag size, I think), both heavyweight leather, with no gussets or epaulets, both have or had badge holders.

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However the snap placement is very different—one has a collar spread so vast it can barely be done up whereas the newer addition has snaps closer to the center giving a much more modest collar and lapel. They also have circular and oval badge holders respectively.

I wonder if anyone can date the smaller collared/oval badge holder one from the zips? It has talon branded centre and sleeve pulls but the pocket pulls are ones I haven’t seen before, a sword teardrop with no chain as opposed to the 70s talon teardrops.

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Very interesting observation. I always loved wide collar (it was like that since the 40-50s) and thought that new iterations had smaller ones (If it was for practical reasons, why were they so big initially?)
 
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