1963 Seat Belt tags

[Steve G.]

I finally got my original '63 seat belts back together... I removed the upper stitching, installed nice buckles and connectors and had them restitched up. The lower "Irving Chute /Chevrolet" tags are original and one is disintegrating but in place. The 2 upper tags (that go on the non-buckle belt) were missing and I had to replace them with Paragon repros (which were reeeeal close to my originals, incidentally) and they were attached with black thread instead of the white thread on the tags side, black on the back side (?) as it says in the manual.
So, how bad would repro tags/ black thread get dinged? A point? Everything else is original, including the webbing and appropriate big letter IC-5000 buckles.

[Jack H.]

Re: 1963 Seat Belt tags

A point? Maybe, that's right. Judges should take the originality points allocated for the item and look at the item along the 5-axis dimensionality of Finish, Date, Installation, Configuration and Completeness deducting 1/5th of the available originality points for violation(s) of any axis. You could argue the seatbelts are a single line item enumerated as "Seat Belts, Tags & Belt Buckles" and try to wack 1/5th of the 14 originality points based on the stitching not being 2-color. But, that shouldn't fly....

Since the line item is called out with THREE separate considerations 1/3 of the 14 originality points should be allocated to the Tags (4.66 or rounded up 5 points). Now, the tags are affixed to the belts with a 'configuration' violation, so the deduction ought to be 1/5 x 4 or 1-point EXACTLY as you guessed, but here you have rhyme/reason for how to get to the bottom line....

[Jack H.]

Re: 1963 Seat Belt tags

A point? Maybe, that's right. Judges should take the originality points allocated for the item and look at the item along the 5-axis dimensionality of Finish, Date, Installation, Configuration and Completeness deducting 1/5th of the available originality points for violation(s) of any axis. You could argue the seatbelts are a single line item enumerated as "Seat Belts, Tags & Belt Buckles" and try to wack 1/5th of the 14 originality points based on the stitching not being 2-color. But, that shouldn't fly....

Since the line item is called out with THREE separate considerations 1/3 of the 14 originality points should be allocated to the Tags (4.66 or rounded up 5 points). Now, the tags are affixed to the belts with a 'configuration' violation, so the deduction ought to be 1/5 x 4 or 1-point EXACTLY as you guessed, but here you have rhyme/reason for how to get to the bottom line....