He's at it again!

[Roughwear]

This seller either misrepresents and or dramatically inflates the auction prices for his jackets. The latest is an Itlaian made A-1 which he claims is original. :roll:

http://cgi.ebay.com/A-1-A1-Pre-WWII-US- ... 286.c0.m14

 

[havocpaul]

Of course, the USN bought their jackets from the Italians! He's at it again as you said, let's hope no-one falls for the bull****.

 

[Andrew]

Funny how things go, just today I was just reading "Hell bent..."and was thinking about this shot of the "olive green leather" jacket. Wasn't it discussed here a while back as actually being a cotton jacket that they have mistaken for leather in the photo?

 

[Falcon_52]

That's right, Andrew. The theory about the olive capeskin A-1 is that it was mistaken for the Navy's 37J1 cloth jacket and that there probably never was an olive A-1. It seems plausible since no olive originals ever surface.

Noel

 

[Chandler]

Reversible? :shock:

Chandler

 

[johnwayne]

Dont want to start an argument but as to the olive green A1 and did it or did it not exist - surely the Lost Worlds 'team' wouldn't have been fooled? Also doesn't Gary Eastman mention in his blurb about his A1?
All very subjective of couse but personally I quite like it, or the idea if it didn't exist!!

Wayne

 

[Peter Graham]

What a load of tosh. It's an Italian fashion jacket.

 

[deeb7]

Dont want to start an argument but as to the olive green A1 and did it or did it not exist - surely the Lost Worlds 'team' wouldn't have been fooled?

The Navy and Marines continued to use the A-1 throughout the 1930s.

Lost Worlds, if you read the website, is thoroughly confused between the A-1, and the similar, but not the same, US Navy 37J1. The specifications for the 37J1 are reproduced in the book Full Gear, and called for the use of chocolate hide.