Iron On excitement

[topdcnut]

Ok, a bit of a stretch. but an early iron on crow for a buck fifty.

[sigsaye]

Isn't it amazing what we get excited about? While I preferred these to the stenciled type, never really liked them. They never really stayed on, so you you needed to sew them down any way. My dad had some, but don't remember him ever wearing them. The couple of dungarees shirts he had when he retired did not have anything on them but his name. But, I do remember seeing these with the same packaging laying around the house and in his stuff when he retired.

[topdcnut]

Sigs,

 

The picture does not show the blue print the patch looks like the later black ones. What year do you remember the wax envelopes?

[topdcnut]

Oh,

 

And yes these sucked, If you wiped your brow on your sleeve they would scratch you.

[sigsaye]

My father retired in '67. I may still have one somewhere

[sigsaye]

Here is a crow that belonged to my father. it still has the wax sleeve. it is blue print. I never saw my father ever use these. he had them, but don't remember him using them. He had two shirts when he retired and they did not have crows.

[sigsaye]

Close up of Dad's crow. He retired in '67

[sigsaye]

This is one of mine that I found in with my stuff. I made CPO in '85, so this is the fat parrott style. Never noticed it

[sigsaye]

Interesting comparrison. My fathers '67 on the left and my '85 on the right. Both brand new, never used

[sigsaye]

This is one of my old dungaree shirts. It is from the late '70s, or 1980-81. My daughter saved it and wears it around the house

[Leatherwringer]

Here are a few in my collection....I really love the iron on USCG shields!

 

shirt and patches date to the late 60's

 

[Salvage Sailor]

Nice crows,

 

I fished these iron on crows out of a seabag that I left at my folks house in 1979 when I transferred from the Pacific to the Atlantic.

 

They were with my sewing kit and scraps that I kept for upgrading uniforms.

 

[Salvage Sailor]

Iron on crow like Steve's and his dad's, in this case for a 3rd Class Petty Officer

 

 

[Salvage Sailor]

Like many other crows, we would buy them as E-6 rank and trim them to what we wanted

 

This is the reverse, the business side with the adhesive

 

[Salvage Sailor]

Like Steve, I preferred the stencil type rather than the denim or chambray material

 

[Salvage Sailor]

These could be trimmed to add on additional chevron to your dungarees

 

I did exactly that with this crow, trimming away a chevron to increase my rank from E-4 to E-5.

 

[Salvage Sailor]

This is the business side of the stenciled crow

 

[Salvage Sailor]

.....and both side by side

 

[Salvage Sailor]

...and the reverse sides

 

I probably bought these at the exchange or uniform shop either at Yokosuka or Pearl Harbor in the mid-1970's

 

 

 

[sigsaye]

I remember about '72 there were color iron on transfers for the dungaree jacket and the "New" pull over Utility Jumper that was supposed to replace the dungarees. The eagle was white and the chevrons were red. Only saw a couple ever used, and none after like '73. Never noticed them in the exchange, but I was a non rate, so not really looking.

[sigsaye]

This is the instructions printed on the package for the '60s crows

[sigsaye]

Found thesed in my bag of stuff from when I was SM1 Iron on Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialists badges. Same as iron on crows. There are still two left in the pack. Don't remember how many came in the pack. Note, they were 65 cents for the pack.

[sigsaye]

Another view from the back of the pack

[sigsaye]

Layed out with instructions

[sigsaye]

flip side