Indy on a budget

[greenmachines]

No, the new buttons look a completely different colour to the advertised ones ... but given the length of time it took for me to pick them up and the word way colours look on a phone ... I can't really be bothered to send them back.

Looking at screen shots from The Last Crusade, including ones on the auction website, Indy's shirt has similar English Rim buttons to the first two films:

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Which suggests that shirt they're auctioning as "Harrison Ford's Last Crusade shirt" may not be screen used.

Or at least the buttons weren't.

I haven't gone through every scene, but then he has a jacket and tie on for most of the film so you can't really see them.

Definitely looks like the auction shirt wasn't in any of the scenes shown at the very least. Not a match. I was pretty certain that you had shown the proof pics before and these in scenes are all the same style and do not match the auction item.

 

[phillbarron]

Button update!

These arrived today:

Which although they aren't exactly the right shape, I think the colour is the closest I'm going to get.

Against the shirt under yellow light:

And under white light:

And the obligatory collage with the screen used buttons:

And ... yeah, okay. Still not perfect, but I think this will do. Maybe now I can stop obsessing over buttons and move on with my life?

Please?

 

[greenmachines]

This is CERTAINLY a win. You are most tenacious.

 

[greenmachines]

The fact that it stays in the same color match to the shirt under the different lighting is the key. Beauty.

 

[phillbarron]

This is CERTAINLY a win. You are most tenacious.

I've no idea why this detail has been so important to me when other aspects are so hideously wrong.

 

[greenmachines]

I've no idea why this detail has been so important to me when other aspects are so hideously wrong.

If anything strikes a familiar chord in prop and costume replication, across all costumers, it is falling down the button hole. We all do it. Just like Alice, once you return, you aren't quite sure it was real or why in fact it should be.

I have a friend, local, that paid 114 for one button. Pretty sure it was a vampire outfit match for Lestat.

 

[phillbarron]

If anything strikes a familiar chord in prop and costume replication, across all costumers, it is falling down the button hole. We all do it. Just like Alice, once you return, you aren't quite sure it was real or why in fact it should be.

I have a friend, local, that paid 114 for one button. Pretty sure it was a vampire outfit match for Lestat.

That's a hell of a button!

 

[Psab keel]

Speaking of Indy Shirt buttons I have some equivalents available if you're still looking. Not $114.00 a button (though being a stickler for accuracy/ authenticity I totally understand the willingness to pay that much).

I can sell them direct to you as well, and skip Ebay altogether if you're interested. These are nice quality, but very inexpensive.

4 Hole Rimmed, Misc. Buttons Military Colors, Tan, Khaki, Beige, Gray, 1/2" Lot | eBay

Miscellaneous Lot of Military colored 1/2" Buttons and a few 5/8".

www.ebay.com

4 Hole Rimmed, Misc. Buttons Military Colors, Tan, Khaki, Beige, 1/2" Lot | eBay

Satin Finish.

www.ebay.com

 

[phillbarron]

I appreciate the offer, but I think I'm sticking with what I have now. I'm not convinced the shirt will survive a fouth set of buttons!