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Need help dating a couple shearling jackets. I Magnin with Talon Zipper.

Devan

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Hello, this is my first post and just wanted say this a great forum that I stumbled upon. Lot's of knowledge and good reads. I found this forum while researching Talon zippers through Google. With that said, I have two jackets that I'm stumped on with dating their era.
The first one is a shearling coat with Talon zipper. No longer has the maker tag of the coat. The zipper and pull are stamped Talon but the stopper is stamped "LF". Which I thought was a different company (Lightning Fasteners). Is that correct?
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The second jacket is made by I. Magnin and was made in France. It has a YKK zipper.
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Thank you for any insight on these.
 

Dinerman

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The first jacket is Canadian, probably from the 1970s. Lightning was a Canadian zipper company associated with Talon. They made the same zippers marked with both names. Sometimes they mixed the markings, as in your case.

The second jacket is probably 1980s.
 

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