{"product_id":"vintage-snow-valley-manchester-vermont-embroidered-patch","title":"Snow Valley Manchester Patch, Felt — c. 1950s-60s","description":"\u003cp\u003eA vintage Snow Valley ski patch from Manchester, Vermont, estimated to date from the 1950s or early 60s, worked on a small round of cream felt with a navy ring chain-stitched around the edge by hand. Snow Valley in navy script, MANCHESTER VERMONT in red block beneath. No skier, no mountain, no snowflake — just the words, which is all the mountain has left anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJust the words Snow Valley, Manchester, Vermont, stitched plainly and left to stand on their own — which is either the most confident patch in this catalog or the cheapest one to produce, and at this distance there is no way to tell which.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt reads differently now than it did then. When this was made, the name was a destination and everybody in the region knew where it was. Today it is just three words on a piece of cloth, and the only thing they point to is the fact that there used to be something there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery lost mountain ends up as a name eventually. This one started that way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA few things make a name like this hold on. A road still carries it. A pond is named after the hill. Somebody's grandmother says it in conversation and a younger person has to ask. Then the road gets renumbered, the grandmother dies, and the word stops meaning a place and starts meaning nothing in particular. That is roughly where Snow Valley is now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChain-stitched on felt, hand-worked edge, with loose threads where the stitch has let go. Photos are the condition report.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ropetow Vintage Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56978780848433,"sku":"RV-VT-035","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/2048\/7473\/files\/ropetow-vintage-co-snow-valley-vermont-patch_61f1cc82-ac71-4e8a-9c64-15f6fbe9c3dc.webp?v=1792339588","url":"https:\/\/ropetowvintage.com\/products\/vintage-snow-valley-manchester-vermont-embroidered-patch","provider":"Ropetow Vintage","version":"1.0","type":"link"}