Maverickson
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This auction almost slipped unnoticed by me http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0365864828. I had been looking forward to seeing this same jacket listed on greed BAY as this jackets importance to me should abundantly illustrate that in general there truely is value in vintage USN jackets and memorabilia. More over this auction should help me illustrate to my wife that there might be a method to my madness. I can say that I was lucky enough to have attended this same estate sale in which this jacket was originally sourced. I was the tenth individual in the door and the fellow directly in front of me pulled the tag which clinched the sale of this jacket to him. The cost of this jacket at the sale for this estate sale buyer was $265.00.
I had originally planed to attend this estate sale to view the Remington Rand 45 acp which was one of the advertised or featured items to this sale. The flight jacket was one of the items not advertised. This gun sold for $1,200.00 and was obviously a veterans issued side arm during the war. However, there was not paper work or documentation present to that effect which would have made the difference to me as whether to have purchased the gun or not.
Some of the other interesting clothing and or memorabilia present at this sale was a AN-6551 summer weight jacket. I looked at the jacket and did not at first recognize the jacket as an issued flight jacket at all. This jacket resembled the M-421 but I was confused by the four pockets and did not recognize the maker on the label. Later on that week I acquired John Chapman's flight jacket CD which made it clear that I had in fact been looking at a virtually unused size 40 An-6551 flight jacket. Among the other things I witnessed was that the man's flight logs http://cgi.ebay.com/World-War-II-Aviato ... 240%3A1318 went for a song.
As it went the only things I came away with was this fellows unused Ray Ban sunglasses and a CBI patch. In the future I am sure that these other items will be sold through eBay. The surprise to me was that these folks obviously had children and that they had let these items go. As by the time I finish putting my father's duplicate flight jacket back as per the original and source his original duplicate patches I will have as much if not more money in my Father's duplicate jacket than this featured jacket fetched.
I had originally planed to attend this estate sale to view the Remington Rand 45 acp which was one of the advertised or featured items to this sale. The flight jacket was one of the items not advertised. This gun sold for $1,200.00 and was obviously a veterans issued side arm during the war. However, there was not paper work or documentation present to that effect which would have made the difference to me as whether to have purchased the gun or not.
Some of the other interesting clothing and or memorabilia present at this sale was a AN-6551 summer weight jacket. I looked at the jacket and did not at first recognize the jacket as an issued flight jacket at all. This jacket resembled the M-421 but I was confused by the four pockets and did not recognize the maker on the label. Later on that week I acquired John Chapman's flight jacket CD which made it clear that I had in fact been looking at a virtually unused size 40 An-6551 flight jacket. Among the other things I witnessed was that the man's flight logs http://cgi.ebay.com/World-War-II-Aviato ... 240%3A1318 went for a song.
As it went the only things I came away with was this fellows unused Ray Ban sunglasses and a CBI patch. In the future I am sure that these other items will be sold through eBay. The surprise to me was that these folks obviously had children and that they had let these items go. As by the time I finish putting my father's duplicate flight jacket back as per the original and source his original duplicate patches I will have as much if not more money in my Father's duplicate jacket than this featured jacket fetched.
