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    Questions About the United States Navy Peacoat

    damn dakota, you're on a buying spree
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    Questions About the United States Navy Peacoat

    I saw the flap pockets. I was watching the auction and was hoping it would go for a reasonable price. i would have bid if it had gone for under $100. Here are the Navy Uniform Regualtions which show the peacoat style with the flaps: 1897 1905, 1913, 1917 There were also...
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    Questions About the United States Navy Peacoat

    I just saw an WWI era peacoat on ebay ( 120101980647 )
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    Questions About the United States Navy Peacoat

    Ok, here's a label you guys probably haven't seen yet: It comes off of a world war 2 coast guard coat with 10 buttons and a neck strap.
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    Questions About the United States Navy Peacoat

    What is VLJ?
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    Questions About the United States Navy Peacoat

    According to this site: http://www.quarterdeck.org/uniforms/uniforms.htm there was a uniform code released in 1922. I haven't seen the regulations, but I'm guessing this was the year that they changed the button style, which would potentially date the coat in the auction to pre 1922. However, I...
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    Questions About the United States Navy Peacoat

    I just found this tag on ebay: The last 3 digits (which I think are a year indicator) are difficult to read. My guess goes to C-53
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    Questions About the United States Navy Peacoat

    New Info from an ebay auction: This is confirmed here: http://www.archives.gov/st-louis/military-personnel/social-security-numbers.html
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    Questions About the United States Navy Peacoat

    Very nice coat. You're lucky to have found it. I agree, it is definitely a World War 2 era peacoat. Without a rating badge on the sleeve, it's difficult to pin it down to a specific year, however, since you have a history to go with the coat, your estimate of 1940 is likely to be correct...
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    Questions About the United States Navy Peacoat

    My other theory is that it could be a cold weather peacoat. I know that they produced heavier peacoats for Northern Climates like the North sea, perhaps this is one of those?
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    Questions About the United States Navy Peacoat

    It could also be a much earlier coat than WW2. I'm not sure when exactly they changed the buttons after WW1, although I did see a 1920s era coat on ebay recently that had the newer style buttons.
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    Questions About the United States Navy Peacoat

    Here's a nice officer's coat that just sold on ebay... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=008&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=180083631813&rd=1&rd=1
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    Questions About the United States Navy Peacoat

    Navy Issue peacoats are ALL over ebay at a far better price than you can get them elsewhere. Just be sure to ask for all of your measurements before buying.
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    Questions About the United States Navy Peacoat

    Hey Peacoat, ya, I got your email, but I've been absolutely slammed at work the last few days. I'll write back tomorrow, gotta get to sleep now though.
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    Questions About the United States Navy Peacoat

    I found some new information: Source: http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/uniform_master_list.htm Peacoat button configuration change: Peacoat button type change:
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    Questions About the United States Navy Peacoat

    Based on the contract, your coat was manufactured in 1980
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    Questions About the United States Navy Peacoat

    I'll gladly accept any help. The hard part is going to be figuring out how to structure it and getting similar photos of coats from different years. I think the structure I outlined above is decent. Labels Contract Numbers Button Types Button Configurations Stitching Miscellaneous...
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    Questions About the United States Navy Peacoat

    The pictures are all hosted on my photobucket account, so they'll stick around. Also, I may at some point organize all of this a little better and build a web page for dating pea coats, as there doesn't seem to be any resources available for it at this time on the web. I know the 1966 label...
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    Questions About the United States Navy Peacoat

    Neck Strap The neck strap is a small piece of wool buttoned on to the left side of the collar with two small buttons that can be used to secure the neck closure by buttoning it to another button on the right side of the collar. It is found on World War 2 era coats Pockets Exterior pockets were...
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    Questions About the United States Navy Peacoat

    Buttons World War 2 coats have 10 buttons on the front (8 showing), 2 small buttons on the left collar and 1 small button on the right collar Post World War 2 coats have 7 or 8 buttons on the front (6 showing) and no small buttons Chief Petty Officers have gold buttons, buttons prior to...

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