Quetzal
One of the Regulars
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Some of you may or may not know this, but I have been wearing a suit and tie for any occasion that was "nice" or "dressy", with a regular shirt, slacks, or sweater as casualwear (this can be discussed in another thread; I have ALWAYS, even as a child, had that mentality); as a result, I would occasionally dress up to school (for musician purposes; wearing a backpack with suspenders is uncomfortable), and, since I am currently small, I have a large collection of vintage ties, as modern ties are just too long and wide for me.
My former Physics teacher in High School, most likely a Baby-Boomer, took note of the ties, and said that his father wore very similar ones back when he was in High School, circa the late 1950s. Now, one day, he told me to follow him to his office, and he began to tell me how he found a very old steamer trunk full of very old things, and how he was trying to clean out his house. While going through the trunk, he found what you see below. He decided to save it and give it to me, as I was the only person he knew who would appreciate it, and he was going to throw it out anyway. He thought that it was a tie case that father probably used in the 1920s and the 1930s, but he wasn't very sure, and neither am I, which is why I ask the experts if this is a vintage tie case:
It is made of a very fine leather, and I my first guess was that it was either part of a kit or something from the military, but he wasn't in the military at any point. Perhaps it was the packaging for a mail-order tie? Any help would be greatly appreciated, especially how it works or how many ties it holds (I'm thinking one or two, as that's how many 1930s ties can be "looped" through the leather bands).
-Quetzal
My former Physics teacher in High School, most likely a Baby-Boomer, took note of the ties, and said that his father wore very similar ones back when he was in High School, circa the late 1950s. Now, one day, he told me to follow him to his office, and he began to tell me how he found a very old steamer trunk full of very old things, and how he was trying to clean out his house. While going through the trunk, he found what you see below. He decided to save it and give it to me, as I was the only person he knew who would appreciate it, and he was going to throw it out anyway. He thought that it was a tie case that father probably used in the 1920s and the 1930s, but he wasn't very sure, and neither am I, which is why I ask the experts if this is a vintage tie case:
It is made of a very fine leather, and I my first guess was that it was either part of a kit or something from the military, but he wasn't in the military at any point. Perhaps it was the packaging for a mail-order tie? Any help would be greatly appreciated, especially how it works or how many ties it holds (I'm thinking one or two, as that's how many 1930s ties can be "looped" through the leather bands).
-Quetzal
