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  1. Mike Hammer

    Crush Cap Auction Lost

    Well, strap me. I'm 100% wrong on this one. Flight crushers did indeed come with the cavalry strap! I'd never seen one before (but then, I don't really do a lot with AAF, I'm more of an infantry guy, especially helmets and EM uniforms), but now that I went back and did some basic research, yeah...
  2. Mike Hammer

    Crush Cap Auction Lost

    A highly suspect item, IMNSHO. This is NOT a flight specific "crusher" cap. It is a standard issue officers cap (the leather strap across the back was the giveaway) that has had the wire grommet removed. The leather looks artificially aged. The leather used was of the highest quality and most...
  3. Mike Hammer

    Do you read WW2-set fiction?

    WW2 is a hard sell here in the US. The recent Ken Burns Series The War may help that a bit. Someone else who writes excellent WW2 era fiction is Ken Follet. The important part is of course to write a good story. The setting can add to the story, but when the setting becomes the story, it...
  4. Mike Hammer

    The Man Who Wasn't There in Colour

    Not to mention the lighting techniques for B&W and color are completely different. What works for one does not work for the other, which is why the colorized versions of original B&W look odd.
  5. Mike Hammer

    Real Time Capsules

    Shucks, in 100 years the very idea of actual physical money may be as out of date as the idea of the washboard. The way things are going with on-line banking, debit cards, direct deposit paychecks and the like, we could very well be a 100% cashless society by then.
  7. Mike Hammer

    An antidote to casual fridays?

    OK, gotcha. I wondered about the high degree of thread necromancy here, and also the existence of several 100+ page threads, and now I know. I'll keep the above rules in mind when posting in the future.
  8. Mike Hammer

    An antidote to casual fridays?

    Maybe it's time for a new trend..... One of the most annoying features of the modern workplace is the rise and supremacy of "Casual Friday". I find this increasingly informal weekly event to be even more annoying than the usual run-of-the-mill garbage employees are frequently being subjected to...
  9. Mike Hammer

    Anyone have any Men's 1930s-40s clothing NOT on Ebay??

    Let me ask a question......Did the bowler go for an outrageous amount over market, or did it bring what it should have in that condition, fair market? You saw a chance to make some dough, so you ponied up investment capital, did the legwork yourself, and reaped the reward. Good for you; ain't...
  10. Mike Hammer

    Anyone have any Men's 1930s-40s clothing NOT on Ebay??

    I see both sides of this. On the one side, Ebay can be a great place to buy and sell....if everything works out OK. There are a ton of uneducated people there selling what they classify as "vintage". Some is, some clearly is not, but "vintage" may mean one thing to us, and something else to...
  11. Mike Hammer

    Anyone have any Men's 1930s-40s clothing NOT on Ebay??

    You have got a point.
  13. Mike Hammer

    OK......So I'm diving in with both feet.....

    Thanks for the welcome! I strongly suspect that the "Monroe" and "English Shop" are very likely store names rather than actual hat brands. Now then.......How to clean etc......go go gadget search feature!
  14. Mike Hammer

    At last, I got myself a heated hat stretcher!

    :cheers1:
  15. Mike Hammer

    Anybody knows how is this type of leather jacket called?

    That jacket has a zipper offset to the left. Almost all true German WW2 leather coats-including those made for the U-boat crews/naval personnel- used buttons. Luftwaffe pilots' jackets used steel "Prym" zippers for a time, but switched to white nylon ones later. In fact, to my knowledge, the...
  16. Mike Hammer

    US Army Ike Jacket w/trousers and cap

    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290179699954&_trksid=p3907.m32&_trkparms=tab%3DSelling And, it includes a tie! It's a nice set, all named to the same soldier. Add shoes, belt, shirt and collar brass and "Robert is your mother's brother".
  17. Mike Hammer

    20s Electric Hat Stretcher, 50s/60s Womens Levi's, and Luftwaffe Hat

    You got some better pics of your LW hat? Interior, markings, etc? Is there a sweat shield? Chin cords? Piping color? Give with the details! ETA: looks like ebay nuked your LW hat listing; no surprise there. Anything with the evil chicken on it won't last long.
  19. Mike Hammer

    Would like to buy a new pea coat not vintage

    In general, avoid anything made by Rothco. Cheaply made of poor quality materials, and generally quality inspected by half blind drunken monkeys, their average product would fail any quality makers inspection process. Commercial pea coats are usually made of lighter weight wool than the...
  20. Mike Hammer

    Cool (But Sold) eBay Stuff

    Very nice indeed. Obviously private purchase of course. Very unique, very stylish. Nice bullion captain's railroad tracks, too. I'd leave them alone, they are a part of the history of the garment. BTW......that price you paid....next time, use a gun.;) You stole that. I've seen people get...
  21. Mike Hammer

    I HATE EBAY....

    Hi there all. My first post here. I've been an Ebayer since '99. In that time I've watched ebay become more and more profit driven, less customer friendly, more impersonal and less about the seller than ever. It's infuriating to find that I have to list item for more than they are worth just...
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