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Georger,, thanks that helps.. if the TOWNCRAFT label is 1964+ with evidence I found that puts the tie between 1964-1965..

I found fragmented images of the secondary label online and on tv, the label with the patent number on it. I noticed that the Cooper patent number didn't match any of the 30 tie samples I found online..

I also found that the Patent label on the Cooper tie is trimmed or misaligned cutting off the last number in the patent. I finally found a full sample identical to the fragments. Turns out the patent was filed 1959 and issued 1961.. All the other ties with the same TOWNCRAFT label had two completely different patents filed 1965. Also, these ties are mass produced as "Snapper" by France Neckwear CO. NY, they produced "Snapper" ties all over the world and just added store branding labels, including Sears..

So, the Cooper TOWNCRAFT label is 1964+ and the unique patent number is 1959-1965.. 

This is the patent number on the Cooper tie, 2972750 but missing the last 0 as the label is either trimmed, altered or misaligned in the manufacturing process.

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The later TOWNCRAFT ties have late 1965 patent#s 3220015 and 3222684

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Shutter, I found that Ebay tie and almost 30 more and only one eventually matched the patent label on the Cooper tie. The problem is there weren't any decent images of the secondary Cooper tie label. 

If you check the patent label I posted in the above post it doesn't match the Cooper one..

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and his research photo below ...

glad it helped.

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Georger,, thanks that helps.. if the TOWNCRAFT label is 1964+ with evidence I found that puts the tie between 1964-1965..

I found fragmented images of the secondary label online and on tv, the label with the patent number on it. I noticed that the Cooper patent number didn't match any of the 30 tie samples I found online..

I also found that the Patent label on the Cooper tie is trimmed or misaligned cutting off the last number in the patent. I finally found a full sample identical to the fragments. Turns out the patent was filed 1959 and issued 1961.. All the other ties with the same TOWNCRAFT label had two completely different patents filed 1965. Also, these ties are mass produced as "Snapper" by France Neckwear CO. NY, they produced "Snapper" ties all over the world and just added store branding labels, including Sears..

So, the Cooper TOWNCRAFT label is 1964+ and the unique patent number is 1959-1965.. 

This is the patent number on the Cooper tie, 2972750 but missing the last 0 as the label is either trimmed, altered or misaligned in the manufacturing process.

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The later TOWNCRAFT ties have late 1965 patent#s 3220015 and 3222684

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Shutter, I found that Ebay tie and almost 30 more and only one eventually matched the patent label on the Cooper tie. The problem is there weren't any decent images of the secondary Cooper tie label. 

If you check the patent label I posted in the above post it doesn't match the Cooper one..

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glad it helped.

I took these photos at the Washington State History Museum during their D.B. Cooper exhibit.  We weren't allowed to take photos and I took a few quick shots. This is why they are blurry. They told us that this was not the original tie (it is blue), however was very close.

I am not sure if you can get anything out of them, but I thought I would put this out there.

I was there at that exhibition no photo of tie though,,

Look at the secondary label in the exhibit with the patent or any online image, it has two patents both are late 1965+.

All examples of the tie's with the correct TOWNCRAFT label found have the later patent label with two different patent numbers and don't match the Cooper tie patent label. The dual patent label ties were produced 1965+, while the Cooper version had a very narrow window for production.

The actual Cooper tie has one patent number which was filed in 1959.

Combined with the graphic design timeline on the TOWNCRAFT label (1964+), the conclusion is the Cooper tie was produced/sold around 1965 (+/- six months) not 1-3 years old at the time of hijacking but around 6 years old.

The only reason I caught this was that Cooper Solved TV show had an image of the Coopers tie and on my big screen freeze frame I deciphered the patent number which did not match all other TOWNCRAFT ties..

Summary, the two labels on Coopers tie were only produced together around 1965 +/- six months, making the tie around six years old at the time of the hijacking.

unrelated, long shot, anybody know

Were there any Penny's stores in Florida around 1965, if so any nearest to Cape Canaveral..

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unrelated, long shot, anybody know

Were there any Penny's stores in Florida around 1965, if so any nearest to Cape Canaveral..

I think Boeing had some kind of management services organization at Cape Canaveral in 1969 and it was headed by "Tex" Johnson, a former Boeing test pilot famous for doing rolls with the 707 prototype at a public exhibition in the Seattle area.  In his biography, Johnson relates that he had dinner with the Apollo 11 astronauts a day or two before they launched for the first moon manned landing.

Its just a wild leap but I wonder about any private security people who worked at Boeing and had access to all the restricted areas? Somebody who suddenly left his employment but was never checked again, and never missed? And missed being checked as a Cooper suspect?