SuinBruin
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This one is a little different.
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Photos and description for posterity's sake...
From the estate of First & Second War Goblet recipient Erich Otto Friedrich Mix. This coat has a fine smooth-finished dark brown cowhide leather exterior. The collar is in black bear fur and is stitched in place to a strip of black cotton, that in turn, is stitched to the dark brown cowhide leather. The front has a vertical row of five buttons on the right side, each of which is covered in a thin layer of fine brown leather on its upper, with a black finished non-magnetic metal core which is twice marked "ASTOR 36" on the reverse, facing an equal number of black cotton button loops on the left side. Each of the leather covered buttons is backed by a gray plastic button that appears just inside the opening. An additional leather covered replacement button has been sewn in place just inside the opening on the right side near the bottom of the coat. The bottom on the exterior is trimmed in a 100 mm wide band of black bear fur. The body of the interior is also lined in black bear fur, as are both sleeves, with black cotton trim just inside the opening on both sides and a wide band along the bottom, all of which is padded. Each cuff is trimmed in black cotton along the open edge, the black bear fur lining at the opening incorporating a 90 mm band of black cotton extending from the core of the cuff and is elasticized at the opening. The coat measures 520 mm across the shoulders and 700 mm in length overall, exhibiting separation of the black bear fur lining from the body of the coat in two locations and exposing the underside of the cowhide leather, the brown cowhide nicely toning on the exterior, displaying a nice texture to both the leather and the fur, along with quality workmanship, the remainder of the stitching intact. Near extremely fine.
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Photos and description for posterity's sake...
From the estate of First & Second War Goblet recipient Erich Otto Friedrich Mix. This coat has a fine smooth-finished dark brown cowhide leather exterior. The collar is in black bear fur and is stitched in place to a strip of black cotton, that in turn, is stitched to the dark brown cowhide leather. The front has a vertical row of five buttons on the right side, each of which is covered in a thin layer of fine brown leather on its upper, with a black finished non-magnetic metal core which is twice marked "ASTOR 36" on the reverse, facing an equal number of black cotton button loops on the left side. Each of the leather covered buttons is backed by a gray plastic button that appears just inside the opening. An additional leather covered replacement button has been sewn in place just inside the opening on the right side near the bottom of the coat. The bottom on the exterior is trimmed in a 100 mm wide band of black bear fur. The body of the interior is also lined in black bear fur, as are both sleeves, with black cotton trim just inside the opening on both sides and a wide band along the bottom, all of which is padded. Each cuff is trimmed in black cotton along the open edge, the black bear fur lining at the opening incorporating a 90 mm band of black cotton extending from the core of the cuff and is elasticized at the opening. The coat measures 520 mm across the shoulders and 700 mm in length overall, exhibiting separation of the black bear fur lining from the body of the coat in two locations and exposing the underside of the cowhide leather, the brown cowhide nicely toning on the exterior, displaying a nice texture to both the leather and the fur, along with quality workmanship, the remainder of the stitching intact. Near extremely fine.
