...can certainly be another man's treasure.
I picked this up from one of the sponsors of this site. He bought some salesman's display cases from the estate of a former insignia retailer, and stuck in one of the corners of one of the cases was this. A piece of machine operater's testing scrap. Someone must have used it to perhaps clean the glass then wadded it up and threw it in the corner.
I always thought material like this was interesting as it offers some insight on how cloth insigina was produced and, as you can imagine, not much of it survived. When you look at the piece in the flesh, there is no doubt that it is 100% period.
Interesting that mostly green thread was used for the testing runs.
Just thought it would be an interesting "conversation piece"
EQ
I picked this up from one of the sponsors of this site. He bought some salesman's display cases from the estate of a former insignia retailer, and stuck in one of the corners of one of the cases was this. A piece of machine operater's testing scrap. Someone must have used it to perhaps clean the glass then wadded it up and threw it in the corner.
I always thought material like this was interesting as it offers some insight on how cloth insigina was produced and, as you can imagine, not much of it survived. When you look at the piece in the flesh, there is no doubt that it is 100% period.
Interesting that mostly green thread was used for the testing runs.
Just thought it would be an interesting "conversation piece"
EQ
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