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Need help to identify 1940's blanket

Discussion in 'PUBLIC Most Wanted - Looking for something?' started by Olav Kvipt, Oct 30, 2013.

  1. Olav Kvipt

    Olav Kvipt Registered Guest

    Hi!
    I'm currently cloning this 1940 Mercury custom car that my relative Jim Kierstead owned. I'm doing it down to the tiniest detail, so I need to get hold of this blanket seen in the photo. Can anyone please help me? :)
     

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  2. Pinkcoke

    Pinkcoke Alumni

    It seems to have an ethnic style to the design, possibly a navaho blanket?
     
  3. poppysvintageclothing

    poppysvintageclothing VFG Board Member Staff Member VFG Past President

  4. Vinclothes

    Vinclothes Alumni +

    It looks like a 1930's vintage cotton camp blanket. The best were made by Beacon but there were other makers. The had a kind of double weave in geometric and/or Native American patterns. I think they were also made in later decades.
    Marian
     
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  5. StelmaDesigns

    StelmaDesigns Alumni +

    I also thought it looked like a cotton camp blanket as I have a few myself.
     
  6. Olav Kvipt

    Olav Kvipt Registered Guest

    Haven't found any similar on eBay or Google yet.. Hopefully someone will recognize it :)
     
  7. joules

    joules VFG Member

    I'm getting a 30s Woolrich blanket vibe.
    It will be a very hard thing to locate. You may need psychic powers!


    Are you East Coast, West Coast, or other?
     
  8. poppysvintageclothing

    poppysvintageclothing VFG Board Member Staff Member VFG Past President

  9. StelmaDesigns

    StelmaDesigns Alumni +

    Oh, that is a fantastic find and price. I love your green blanket :o)

    Julia
     
  10. Olav Kvipt

    Olav Kvipt Registered Guest

    I am located in Los Angeles :) have not been able to find it yet..
     
  11. joules

    joules VFG Member

    I should have asked where your relative, Jim was based. Also in L.A., or...?
     
  12. Olav Kvipt

    Olav Kvipt Registered Guest

    It could have been a sheet or a fabric to! Yes, he lived in Inglewood :)
     
  13. joules

    joules VFG Member

    Thanks, that should narrow it down regionally, perhaps, but it will be a long shot to locate that specific textile item.
    Maybe it could be found in an old ad, from The May Company, Sears, Montgomery Ward, JC Penney, or other stores that were around the area back then.

    Perhaps you could find someone to custom screen print that design for you? I really like the way it looks, and I admire your attention to detail in the project!
     
  14. Art C. Packrat

    Art C. Packrat Registered Guest

    It is a cotton boy's blanket made after roy rogers or the other cowboy movies came out . LOOK FOR 1940'S-1950'S BOYS COWBOY AND Indian blankets , esp in Western States . Or a late Navajo , Pendleton , etc.
     

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