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1) Anyone point me to a Ben Silver button tutorial? @TheNeedMachine ?

I don't know of one. So:

  • If you find them on a cheap blazer from GW, and they're not all beat / chipped up, buy it and harvest the buttons.
  • If you see them marked 1/20 14K GF, 14K, or .975, buy them.
  • The classic designs (fleur de lis, South Carolina palms, dogs, etc) sell - if cheap, consider buying them.
  • If no longer made, and cheap, consider buying them.
  • Ivy league (Harvard, Yale etc), and cheap, consider buying them.

The gold-filled (retail $700), sterling (retail $475), and 14k gold (retail about $4k) of course being the no-brainer buys

YMMV.
 

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Quote: I think what I found is an older version of the Yale buttons. Don't know the makeup yet.

Thanks for the breakdown! Got the jacket for $6.99, buttons came with it.

They are just stamped "Ben Silver New York" on the back, so I'll assume they are some mundane metal.
 
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Yesterday's haul, or at least the menswear portion:

Albert Ltd. fulled herringbone wool shooting coat, made by Weather Coat Guild. I think 1970s?





Brooks Brothers 42R 2-button wool (sportcoat?) What do you call this design? Windowpane houndstooth?





 

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According to ebay I might have found a thing. Hurray!
You have in fact found a thing, congrats! Nice shoes.

I think what I found is an older version of the Yale buttons. Don't know the makeup yet.

Thanks for the breakdown! Got the jacket for $6.99, buttons came with it.

They are just stamped "Ben Silver New York" on the back, so I'll assume they are some mundane metal.
Nice find!
 

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Is that what it's called?

AFAIK. I think @Orgetorix posted about it once or twice.
Yesterday's haul, or at least the menswear portion:

Brooks Brothers 42R 2-button wool (sportcoat?) What do you call this design? Windowpane houndstooth?
That is called a gunclub, (or gun club), since some shooting club in Britain had a houndstooth with a windowpane as their tartan.
 

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I'm famous! Yeeeeehhhhhhhh boiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!
Damn I thought I had it made when "Jompsoey" entered the thread lexicon, a verb for being extremely long winded and wordy (few would refer to this as having it made, but I enjoyed it) ...you however achieved being the face of what all members strive for, finally famous.
 
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Damn I thought I had it made when "Jompsoey" entered the thread lexicon, a verb for being extremely long winded and wordy (few would refer to this as having it made, but I enjoyed it) ...you however achieved being the face of what all members strive for, finally famous.


I humbly accept this recognition! First, I would like to thank spoo for generating the meme from my out of focus pic taken from my s potato. Second, i would like to thank my wife for putting up with my thrift life style. Third, i would like to thank snoogz for selling my **** so i can keep on my addiction. Fourth, i would like to thank my freezer for working endlessly to demoth and delarva all of my woolens. Fifth, i would like to thank the thread for making me feel like a bawsse. Sixth, i would like to thank eazye for using my meme. Seventh, i would like to thank all of the donors who donated the good ****. I'll BRB with the rest of the list.
 
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Was at a store...


Saw this pair of shoes. I knew instantly they were shell, and thus worth a closer look.


I grabbed a shoe and looked inside. Was not familiar with this name.


Looked a bit further in...





Quickly grabbed the other shoe, and my excitement was confirmed.





ALDEN SHELL POP!!!

Alden #954 Monk Strap Oxfords, Aberdeen Last. 9 C? Color #8?

Have thrifted shell before, have thrifted Aldens before... but never the two combined. They're in a bit of rough shape.. seems like someone maybe used some black polish on them. Wondering if these would be good candidates for "Cordovan by Cap'n".

This is what I live for... those big pops that are out there, lurking on shelves and racks.
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AFAIK. I think @Orgetorix
posted about it once or twice.
That is called a gunclub, (or gun club), since some shooting club in Britain had a houndstooth with a windowpane as their tartan.


I don't know that there is an actual authoritative convention but for what it's worth that's not what I'd call that. That has jagged edges like houndstooth so I would call that shepherd or houndstooth check/plaid.
Gun club, in my nomenclature, is characterized by intersecting straight line windowpanes. All intersections form 90 degree angles, unlike glen plaid or houndstooth check where the intersections form a different geometry. This has to do with the warp and weft in a way I don't really understand.
Either way, district and gun club are the "clean" ones and shepherd, glen plaid and houndstooth are the messy ones.

I did a whole thing on this on my tumblr complete with photos.
 

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Gotham season 2, holy ****!!! They are not pulling any punches this season!!! Must get Batman Arkham Knight for new ps4!
 
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Gotham season 2, holy ****!!! They are not pulling any punches this season!!! Must get Batman Arkham Knight for new ps4!
Watching the second episode right now! Have you tried minority report/ scorpion/blindsport/quantico?
 
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