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Vintage Pocket Yokes & The Art Of Pearl Snap Cowboy Western Shirts

Everyone loves a good yoke! Here are a few. 

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A Little Brown Jug ---- Of ----Red Top Rye

Dated in pencil 1904, this miniature American stoneware jug is a turn of the century carnival prize & promotional souvenir. If you are curious to know what is "Red Top Rye"? Well, it's good ol' whiskey. 

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The Art Of Vintage American Zippers

After many years of picking vintage clothing for a living, I have fallen in love with the beauty of this 160 year old patented idea to fasten fabric together with a metal closure. Vintage zippers are fascinating mechanically and also give clues to a garments age & quality of construction. Some of my favorites include: Conmar, Talon, Talon 42, Serval, Zipp, Scovill, Robin, Gripper Zipper, Prentice, Conmatic, Crown & Ideal. My least favorite is the dreaded YKK.  

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Modern Bohemian Chic & The Revival Of Vintage Hippie Style

Here are a few of my "Bohemian Chic" finds over the years. Each item below does have a future/primitive look.  There must be something barbarically sexy about incorporating animal skins and feathers and furs?  Although nowhere near vegan, please remember that at least some love & respect can be attained from giving these vintage items a "better life" than being destroyed, as so often happens when these items are not picked and recycled. 

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The Fashion Of Vintage Rabbit Fur Coats

It would be a shame to let these rabbit pelts go to waste. Give them life, let them live one more night out on the town! My dream hipster girl wears: rabbit fur jackets, neon leggings, and knee-hi Minnetonka Moccasins. She has a feather in her hair. In other words, a soft woman in a soft jacket makes perfect fashion sense.

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Extremely Rare 1942 Lee Cowboy WWII Button Jeans

Here is an incredible $2 dollar thrift store find.  Extremely rare 1942 Lee Cowboy "War Time" jeans.  This model was produced for about 1 year.  Beautiful in every way to the denim connoisseur. Some of the details are: crotch rivet, Lee center tag, single needle tailoring, "Lee Cowboy" donut top button w/ plain blank zinc following down the fly, lined inside back pockets, and half selvedge along outseam to cuff.  The most iconic aspect is the use of the "Reverse Arcuate" on the back pockets. Basically a Levi's arcuate flipped upside down.  Recently reissued by Lee Japan. I estimate 30-40 original pairs exist around the world in private collections.  This pair was sold in 2006 For $3000+. 

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The Art Of Vintage Railroad Album Covers.

Here are a few classic 1950's RailRoad "Sound Effect" Record covers from the XtimemachineX vinyl archive. These time capsules are filled with: dark, rainy, ambient, industrial machine sounds. Records as pictured below, were often part of libraries & radio station LP pools. I have never seen a "Railroad Sounds" LP picture cover that I didn't like. In my opinion, the nostalgic cover Images are usually worth the asking price of these collectibles. The sounds and moods they set are priceless.

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The Timeless Design Of WWII U.S.N. N-1 Deck Jackets

Here are a couple of WWII United States Navy N-1 Deck Jackets. Extremely well constructed and lined in Alpaca wool. These both date 1940-1944 and are fine examples of American garment design and manufacturing.

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The Mysterious Psychedelic Comic Art Of Frank Mell

Here is a glimpse into the personal sketch book of underground psychedelic comic artist Frank Mell. His incredible work is similar to legendary R. Crumb Comics, but much less known. These photographs are from the personal archives of Frank and have never been seen by the public. Franks younger brother Ed Mell, a western landscape painter, is much more known and has paintings in multiple high end private collections as well as museums. This glimpse of Franks' lost sketch book comics is in honor of a man that was the real deal, and was Ed's mentor. It is an honor to hold a few of the original drawings and airbrush paintings. These few pieces I hold were bought at auction in Phoenix, Arizona in 2011 and were drawn during his times in Brooklyn & Phoenix.

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Vintage 1976 Pat Flanagan Experimental Sensor II

Check out this interesting $20 thrift store find. This is a Pat Flanagan "Experimental Sensor II" from 1976. At first glance the bronze cast psychedelic fibonacci spiral & Egyptian hieroglyphics makes this strange piece of jewelry feel as though it is the key to time travel or eternal life. In fact Dr. Flanagan wrote the book on "Pyramid Power" and claimed these pendants have the ability to produce the same energetic effects as pyramids, but in a more compact form.

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RARE Details Of An Antique 1900-1905 Louis Vuitton Luggage Suitcase

Here are the beautiful details that show the EARLY Craftsmanship Of Louis Vuitton hand made luggage circa 1900. Suitcase value estimate $3000.

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A Few 1940's - 1950's Mexican Brass & Enamel "Biker" Rings

Here Are A Few Great Examples Of The Collectible Art "Brass Knuckle"!!

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"The Brotherhood Of Light" Books By C.C. Zain

This group of strange 1920's - 1940's books caught my attention scattered in a sale lot of books heading for the incinerator. Once opened, I realized I hit the consciousness jackpot. There Is not much info on these early American pamphlets describing the inner works of: Ascended Masters, Freemasons, Sacred Knowledge, Astrology, Tarot, Magic, Consciousness, Eastern Philosophy, and Universal Cosmic Ways. Here are a few of the art inscriptions.

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The Paradox

The Truth Often Sounds Paradoxical. This Statement Is Not True. Ad Infinitum.

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Philosopher Alan Watts & Obscure Zen Doodles

"The individual is an aperture through which the whole energy of the universe is aware of itself, a vortex of vibrations in which it realizes itself as man or beast, flower or star-- not alone, but as central to all that surrounds it." Alan Watts 1972

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Rare Oil Painting By American Experimental Electronic Music Pioneer Nik Raicevic

Here Is a rare glimpse of an original oil painting by early electronic sound composer Nik Raicevic. As a collector of psychedelic art & electronic music, this painting is truly an honor to look at and physically be in the same room with! Nik Raicevic is a very mysterious figure in the history of his genre. He privately pressed 5 of the earliest & strangest psychedelic electronic synthesizer "Inner Space" "Trip" albums for the LSD meditation generation between 1969-75, then disappeared. The album covers all featured his consciousness expanding abstract/cubist artworks. This original Raicevic oil painting was in a 10 day auction offered by a San Diego art dealer. Measuring: 50 x 40 inches, this painting is huge! The canvas also has a note written on the back stating it was hung at The Beverly Hills Screening Room and the name Steven Spielberg appears within the description & provenance. I am guessing this oil on canvas Sci-Fi landscape is from 1969-1972 which predates the "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind" era for Mr. Spielberg.  In 2010 @ Auction $500 dollars was paid for the painting.  It now hangs in my electronic music studio after being rolled up for a decade.

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Shiva & The Divine Dance Of Nataraja

This antique statue of Lord Shiva's Dance represents the source of all rhythm & movement within the playfulness of the universe. Seen here as Nataraja, The Cosmic Dancer, Shiva performs The Tandava, the dance in which the universe is created, maintained, and dissolved. The purpose is to destroy a weary universe, prepare the process of it's new creation, and release the souls of all mankind from the trap of illusion. The place of the dance, Chidambaram, which is portrayed as the center of the universe, is actually within the heart. The dwarf on which Nataraja dances is Apasmara, and symbolizes ignorance. This particular 200 year old gilded bronze & enamel statue is of very high quality with fine attention to detail and has a very special allure about it.