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Talon zipper for Eastman A2?

Dover

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Recently saw an Eastman A2 for sale that looked quite nice. Then I noticed the zipper looks to be a brass Talon.
Still new to this but when I checked Eastman's site I saw a Crown zipper. Is this a replacement or did Eastman use a brass Talon zipper at one time? Also posting a pic of the label to try to and date this jacket. Any thoughts?
 
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Pilot

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View attachment 3004 View attachment 3001 View attachment 3003 Recently saw an Eastman A2 for sale that looked quite nice. Then I noticed the zipper looks to be a brass Talon.
Still new to this but when I checked Eastman's site I saw a Crown zipper. Is this a replacement or did Eastman use a brass Talon zipper at one time? Also posting a pic of the label to try to and date this jacket. Any thoughts?
IMHO its an older ELC A-2 and in that time they used these brass Talon zippers . Saw it onto two other Fleabay adds as well.
 

Roughwear

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Eastman have used original and repro nickel Talons on their A-2s and currently they use repro Talons and repro Crown zips. As has been said this is an older jacket with a repro brass Talon zip and dates to the late 1980s/early 90s.
 

Grant

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Back in the day Gary used original Talon's in some of his original maker A-2's.
 

DJS48

Active Member
I still have an elc house a-2 from about ~1992 with the same "contract" number as the one pictured above that came with a brass talon zip. At some point I had the lining, cuffs, waistband replaced and added a dull nickel talon zip. All repairs made by elc.
Regards,
Don
 

M3Cavalry

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I have a 2015 ELC Star Sportswear with a Talon-branded zipper. No idea if it is NOS or not; I suspect not. It's a superb zipper and functions without issue after much wear. I also had ordered and subsequently returned an ELC Werber with a zipper so bad it was essentially non-functional; I barely was able to get the jacket off after trying it on, once.
 

A2 B3au

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I have a 2015 ELC Star Sportswear with a Talon-branded zipper. No idea if it is NOS or not; I suspect not. It's a superb zipper and functions without issue after much wear. I also had ordered and subsequently returned an ELC Werber with a zipper so bad it was essentially non-functional; I barely was able to get the jacket off after trying it on, once.
do u remember what type of zip it had that didn't work ..Nice one Art
 
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