No, I'm sorry Platon, but I'm not convinced that's the case at all.
I have owned three goatskin Perry 23377s (of a contract run of 20,000) and one Perry 16175-P (of a contract run of 50,000) and all had the offset hanger loop. So the odds of me picking consistently an offset loop are 3/20,000 or 1/50,000 (the latter based on the fact that I've only had one HH Perry). Of the 20+ others that I've seen in images (in either contract) only one has been offered up with a centrally placed hanger loop. Do the maths...
I don't know how large the Perry operation was, but I've seen the factory at Newburgh in Gary's book - it doesn't look like a handful of people in the operation. Is it likely that I've been lucky enough to pick one or two operators who couldn't centre a hanger loop? Is that really so hard to do...?
A mistake? Possibly, but unlikely - a one off? No - it's a feature of the Perry jacket just like the 3-piece wind flap. Was this specified? No, but it was clearly company practice to eke out scare stocks of leather.
To the ordinary Joe in the street a centrally placed loop is what they're expecting - I would venture that the informed collector will be disappointed if the pattern is not reproduced with the subtle nuances.
I do not disagree.
but you try and explain that (and convice) the disappointed customers who will ask for their money back due to having received a "defective" with a crooked hanger.
I checked the images of 3 original perrys I have. In one it is not visible, the other is crooked and the third is centered as below
This is a 1 in 3 or 33% possibility for me that they were centered. So the fact that some centered were there does not make the centered repro wrong.
But as I said, we will be open to accomodate anyone who wants crooked. He will just need to specify it.
Now that we are talking about these things, there is something else.
Some Perrys have the double barrel eyelet put the wrong way (please see data plate 21 in Gary's book).
I have seen that in other contracts as well and I have also seen it put the correct way.
Again, we will prefer to do it correctly in our standard version, but are here to accomodate any special requests that someone may have in order to be happy with his jacket.
What do you think?