herringbonekid
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LuckyKat, will you be putting any of the new old stock ties up for sale ?
LuckyKat, will you be putting any of the new old stock ties up for sale ?
I retract my previous statement about 2-tone labels...I found a few in my collection...
On another note...I snapped pictures of my collection of PB ties (minus the handful of PB bow ties)
1940s composition: 53% mohair, 47% cotton
Early '50s composition, from your tag: 50% Rayon, 32% mohair, 13% cotton, 5% nylon.
I've seen another from that era marked 50% Rayon, 32% Mohair, 12% Cotton, 6% Nylon.
It looks like by the '50s "Wash and Wear" Palm Beach ties by Beau Brummel had been re-formulated again to be:
55% dacron polyester, 40% Rayon, and 5% Polyester. I'm seeing ads for those in the late 1950s. Oddly, the tags still say "woven only by Goodall Sanford", despite the name "Palm Beach" and the Goodall Sanford mills splitting ways around 1955. It was sort of a gradual split, '54-'56. In the early '50s, some of the fabric production had moved from Maine to Ohio. I wonder if that included the fabric used in their neckties?
By the '60s, Beau Brummell Palm Beach ties were 60% polyester, 40% rayon
Lots of changes in the fabric. Does anyone know of any other percentage variations?
Anyways, on a recent trip to the mid west (I'm from So. Cal), I found the EARLIEST PB label I've ever seen...& according to Spencer of Vintage Haberdashers, I believe this to be late teens...its white on white (I've never seen that either):
I have some deadstock ones that had still another formula. It's 53% wool, 42% cotton and 5% rayon. The paper label reads Copyright 1948.
just bought this off Britbay. it has some interesting raised textures:
summer might happen, you never know.
Very nice. Would you call those slubs?
why didn't I see that one...doh!