{"product_id":"vintage-smugglers-notch-vermont-embroidered-patch","title":"Smugglers’ Notch Patch (Three Peaks) — c. 1980s","description":"\u003cp\u003eA vintage Smugglers' Notch ski patch, estimated to date from the 1980s, featuring the same three triangles with the red swapped for pink — green, blue, pink — over SMUGGLERS' NOTCH in blue with a rule either side and V-E-R-M-O-N-T letterspaced underneath. Rectangular, cream ground, blue merrowed border. The pink dates it to within about four years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePink on a ski patch dates the thing to within about four years. The eighties got everywhere, including to the far side of a notch that closes under snow every winter and leaves the mountain at the end of a road to nowhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSmugglers' has never been the easiest place in Vermont to reach, and for a long stretch its clientele was exactly the sort of family that considered that a feature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy the time this was made the mountain had been running for roughly thirty years and had settled firmly into being what it still is.\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":56978793234737,"sku":"RV-VT-029","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/2048\/7473\/files\/ropetow-vintage-co-smugglers-notch-vermont-patch.webp?v=1792339691","url":"https:\/\/ropetowvintage.com\/products\/vintage-smugglers-notch-vermont-embroidered-patch","provider":"Ropetow Vintage","version":"1.0","type":"link"}