Hey Corky,
I've been sneaking around their "IRVIN" for a little while, tempted by the price just like you. I ended up buying one from ELC as I figured that I will be wearing this for the next (at least) 15 years.
I had to pay 30% more compared to the Noble House coat but for the next 15...
NIIIIICCCCE job Nick!
I used to do the same stuff - aeons ago...
Lived beside a Canadian airbase in Southern Germany and the boys just loved painted leathers. Unfortunatetly I mostly worked for tankers and artillery people but as a 16-year-old kid you don't ask questions who's paying for...
What kind of "The Cockpit" are you referring to?
I hope not the German company that has been selling (imported) terrible jacket copies which they've been calling "jackets made to the same specs as originals with - NOW GET THIS: the aid of the original stencils" (unquote).
The "Boutique...
G-1, size 40, BUAER label, ca. 1952 with a "SIKORSKY ENG. SYST. 1" writing in the back.
Picked it up in London about 1988, haggling my little heart out with the paki shop assistant - cost me an arm and a leg (at the time, for a basically shot leather coat).
I just LOVED it and only wore...
Sorry about the missing pics...
Thanks a lot for the hint, Wil...but I am not in the posession of a digital camera (believe it or not, I don't even have a mobile phone or a navigation system for my car).
If you folks insist, I can shoot a roll of slide film through my Leica, get them scanned...
Hi Gang!
Up for sale is a minty MA-1 made by Dobbs (Alpha's predecessor company) around 1953-'54. According to the number it comes out of the third contract.
Absolute stunning shape with no visible wear, not even dirt inside the pockets. There is only some damage on one of the cuffs and a...
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