Recent content by dleak77

I was wondering if anyone has ever treated their peacoat with any type of waterproofing? My wife said she would like to spray hers with a spray waterproofer (I think the specific one she was looking at was called "Camp Dry" or something like that). We have used it to waterproof some cheap wool...

You should definitely wait for the expert, Mr. Peacoat, to give you a definite answer, but I'll hazard a guess until he tells us for sure...looks like the coveted 1949 (or thereabouts) tag to me. It is the "Naval Clothing Depot" version with "Service Number", " Contract Number", & Size listed...

LaymanX, I've actually had good luck finding vintage Navy issued peacoats on eBay. Most of the sellers aren't very educated about what era the coats they are selling are from (for example there are a large number of coats listed as "WW2" that obviously aren't if you do a little research...some...

I'm in the southern part of Illinois. Here it isn't as bitterly cold as often as up North, but it is pretty variable. We've had winters with feet of snow & times when the temperature didn't get above the teens for weeks at a time. On the other hand we've had some winters where it was...

Thanks Mr. Peacoat. That was the conclusion I drew as well. I'm not terribly OCD but having the buttons pointing all different directions was bothering me & since I had two missing ones to replace anyway, my wife (bless her heart) took all the buttons off then sewed them back on straight up &...

Fair enough...but this discussion didn't start out as an academic exercise in comparative button angles...or angels. It started because I needed to have some of my buttons resewn & since keeping this coat as authentic as possible is important to me, I wanted it done the "right way". I assumed...

Interesting...so if I am understanding you correctly Mr. Peacoat, you are saying the anchor on the original buttons is pretty much straight up & down. Looks like all of my buttons have been resewn at some point or another because I dont have any sewn on that don't go all the way through the...

Mr. Spoonbelly, Thank you for the reply & information. Didn't mean to single out Mr. Peacoat for the answer, I just had read his info. on dating these great coats & thought he would know...but if you have 10 different peacoats in your collection then I will gladly take your word on how these...

Mr. Peacoat, You may have covered this elsewhere in the thread but after a quick search I didn't find it...were the buttons on these navy peacoats originaly put on with the anchors pointed a certain way? Being military issue and knowing the military can be pretty specific about such things I...

Mr. Peacoat, Thank you for the reply. Apparently I just mis-remembered about the buttons from this particular era being Bakelite. As for the color of the buttons, I assumed after all these posts on the thread that someone would have noticed if they weren't actually black, especially when they...

Hi everyone I am a newbie here and I don't mean to hijack the thread...but it looks like this is the place to ask general questions about vintage U.S. Navy issued peacoats. I just purchased my first ever peacoat off eBay and am waiting for it to arrive. According the photos on the listing and...