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I am not convinced by the Iron Cross logo.
This is going into a flight jacket, many of the senior officers fought planes painted with crosses.
It is feasible that a new logo was designed for the jacket.
Or maybe it was the reason Goldsmith never got another contract.
Yes, there may have been no manufacturer label like seen on an A-1 or one added like on the SAT 32-485 or maybe a single signed/unsigned label like on the latter A-2's. It is a guess.
From digging into P. Goldsmith Sons Co. recently I tend to think they would have added a manufacturing label like the "Security Aviation Togs" in the SAT 32-485. Why? Goldsmith was trying to become a major manufacturing figure at that time and publicity is key. I noticed that Goldsmith pre-1933 placed their trade mark on everything I could find, such as the embossed version on a child's boxing glove set below.
I also noticed the first company name listed on the A-1 (not A-2) vendor bid list for A-1 test jackets was A. G. Spalding & Bros., Inc. (pg. 116 in Mr. Eastman’s excellent reference book). Yes, Spalding became more popular than Goldsmith in the end, but I wonder if Goldsmith was chosen for a batch of A-2 jackets as a possible competitor to Spalding at that time.
The iron cross trade mark logo may have been why Hap Arnold changed his jacket later.
https://www.ebth.com/items/1629984-child-s-vintage-goldsmith-sons-boxing-gloves