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Vintage Summit 11: A Vintage Summit of the industry's leading eccentrics discussing vintage clothing.

After a year's absence, Vintage Summit, a discussion of vintage clothing among vintage enthusiasts, is back after a long absence. Tomohiro Konno, Michihiko Kurihara, Fujihara Yutaka, and Takashi Abe, four regular members who boast the best personal collections and overwhelming knowledge in the scene, will bring in items and categories that they are interested in recently, or topics they want to share with the members, and will dig deep into them while digressing as usual. They will dig deep into the topic with their usual digressions.

Photo_Fumihiko Ikemoto

Text_Takehiro Hakusui

Edit_Yosuke Ishii

'I finally found what I've been looking for for about 20 years.'

WORK BRANDS VINTAGE NOVELTY

Fujiwara:Finally, I brought a variety of novelties from work brands, and I particularly like the one from [Carhartt]. Mr. Konno also had a different pattern, and I was impressed that he used it as a pendant head.

Abe:What is it originally used for?

Konno:It is called a watch fob and appears to be an accessory attached to a pocket watch, which was common at the time.

Abe:Heh. So is it very old?

Fujiwara:It probably dates from the 1910s.

Abe:If it is that old, it is no longer an antique. Were they so-called sales promotion goods?

Kurihara:Or it could be a commemorative gift given to an employee who received an award, etc.

Abe:I see. I've known about their existence for a while, but I can't find them at all, can I?

Fujiwara:Yes, I knew it existed about 20 years ago, and I remember it cost about 80,000 yen at the time, and I thought, "Well, eventually," but then I realized that I had not seen it at all, and I finally managed to get it recently after more than 10 years of searching.

Konno:The specifications are slightly different from mine, and I can confirm three patterns depending on the age, but I'm sure there are more.

Kurihara:It looks like there are several patterns of vehicle details on the front and factory and branch office notations on the back.

Abe:Heh. Of course it's expensive, right?

Fujiwara:They don't appear first before the price. Anyway, the number of balls seems to be low.

Abe:I see....doesn't it show up on ebay or something?

Fujiwara:Yes....I have a copy of the book.... I should have bought it back then....

Kurihara:What are these Levi's button-type things?

Fujiwara:This pendant head was produced in small quantities in the 1980s under the double name of "Tiffany & Co. There are not so many of them, but compared to this watch fob, you can still find a few of them.

Abe:Watchfob. I'll keep that in mind for a bit.