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John Sisson
4546 55th st.
San Diego, Ca. 92115

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This is a form that I made for making Lambretta windscreens. You get some 3/16'' lucite just small enough to fit in your stove, peel the paper off, put it in a pre-heated 350 degree oven, and when it gets soft you pull it out and drape it over the form. Then when it's cool you re-paper it and cut it out to the shape you want; traditional, flag, anarchy symbol, Santa, whatever. I'll include an old original screen to use as a pattern. There's kind a a flat spot in the middle as you can see from the edge-view foto. It doesn't crease or anything and it made a nice part when I used it (once, always the hobbyist!).

Two '30s (I'm guessing) Wheary wooden suitcases. Very classy in their day with the tweed and chrome and radiused corners and clear plastic handles and all. The big one has some cracks in the wood on top along the edge 'neath the tweedcloth; you can see the deformities of the tweed up by the handle. Various age and use wear but in suprisingly good shape.

I got this back in the '80s when I went out to Concord, Ca. to buy a Jet 200 from a guy. He had some n.o.s. parts in a box that he got from the dealership in Vallejo, from which also came the Jet. Well I bought the Jet and he threw in the parts and banner.
It's some sort of dealer banner. It's made of acetate or some silk-like material, I'm pretty sure that it's a synthetic or it would probably be rotten or moth-eaten by now. Maybe nylon, I just don't know (''Oh and I guess but I just don't know''--Lou Reed). It measures 35 1/2'' x 11 1/2''. There are various seemingly permanent creases where it was folded for the longest time, though maybe it could be pressed. The white silk screened letters have cracks in the ink evenly all over the banner, like the checking in the finish of an old SG or maybe a Les Paul TV. I shot some of the close-ups to show the condition. The inside dimension of grommets is app. 9/32''. They're very solidly installed in the banner and could be used to string the banner up as was originally the idea. I got this back in the '80s when I went out to Concord, Ca. to buy a Jet 200 from a guy. He had some n.o.s. parts in a box that he got from the dealership in Vallejo, from which also came the Jet. Well I bought the Jet and he threw in the parts and banner.
It's some sort of dealer banner. It's made of acetate or some silk-like material, I'm pretty sure that it's a synthetic or it would probably be rotten or moth-eaten by now. Maybe nylon, I just don't know (''Oh and I guess but I just don't know''--Lou Reed). It measures 35 1/2'' x 11 1/2''. There are various seemingly permanent creases where it was folded for the longest time, though maybe it could be pressed. The white silk screened letters have cracks in the ink evenly all over the banner, like the checking in the finish of an old SG or maybe a Les Paul TV. I shot some of the close-ups to show the condition. The inside dimension of grommets is app. 9/32''. They're very solidly installed in the banner and could be used to string the banner up as was originally the idea.

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