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Made in Korea

Last week I noticed another pair of VintageChucks made in Korea on Ebay.com. Buy it now price is 350 USD. To much if you ask me. About ten years ago I first found a Korean made pair. I bought it on Ebay as well, fooled by the extra stiches, ignoring the feeling the tow caps did[…]

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Retro? No thanks!

Every now and then I’m fooled by Ebay. A picture of a green (or white, turkois, red…..) pair of chucks, seem to be vintage and appair to be retro. With the ‘First String’ Converse launched a shoe based on the well selling chucks from the seventies. Black heeltab, extra stiches, smaller to cap and thicker soles.[…]

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Family

If you buy and sell Vintage Converse All Stars for a very long time you get to know other buyers and sellers over the years, at least virtually. As Ebay has been a great source to find Vintage Chucks I know a lot of guys -don’t know where the girls went- who sells Vintage stuff,[…]

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Orange

My home country is the Netherlands. Country of traders since the Golden Age. We are a small kingdom in Europe and since 2013 we have a new King and Queen, named Willem Alexander and Maxima. As our royal family is named after the small French village Orange -Van Oranje-  we celebrate Kings Day yearly by[…]

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No laces, no box…

Yesterday some new boxes arrived, the last 185 pairs of the dead stock I bought earlier this year. Same colors, same sizes, some with and some without boxes. Checking the boxes I found one serial number I hadn’t seen before, just one pair with this pink-redish color. You can imagine how happy I am, finding[…]

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