{"product_id":"vintage-smugglers-notch-security-uniform-patch","title":"Smugglers’ Notch Security Patch — c. 1980s","description":"\u003cp\u003eA vintage security patch from The Village at Smugglers' Notch, Jeffersonville, Vermont, estimated to date from the 1980s, featuring three overlapping peaks in green, white and red on a navy ground, SECURITY arched in gold across the top and THE VILLAGE AT \/ SMUGGLERS' NOTCH \/ VT. stacked in gold beneath. Round, gold merrowed border.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis came off a uniform. It was issued with the jacket, it went back with the jacket, and nobody ever sold one of these at a counter next to the postcards.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSomebody wore this at two in the morning in a parking lot in February, walking a flashlight past rows of frozen cars, checking the lodge doors, finding the one guest who had decided to walk back to their condo the scenic way and was now somewhere in the woods. It is the least glamorous job on a mountain and the whole operation stops working without it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStaff patches are the hardest thing in this entire catalog to find, and the easiest to be certain about. Nothing that was never sold can have been bought by mistake.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere is also no secondary market feeding these. Resort patches came off a rack by the thousand and still turn up in bulk lots. Security patches came off perhaps a dozen jackets, once, and then the design changed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEmbroidered on twill, merrowed edge. Photos are the condition report.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ropetow Vintage Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56978775245105,"sku":"RV-VT-038","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/2048\/7473\/files\/ropetow-vintage-co-smugglers-notch-security-patch.webp?v=1792339527","url":"https:\/\/ropetowvintage.com\/products\/vintage-smugglers-notch-security-uniform-patch","provider":"Ropetow Vintage","version":"1.0","type":"link"}