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[steur]

I love a true Milan. The color on this one is really interesting. Nice snag Brent.


Very unusual...pine martin! The liner on this one is really a storyteller. I like the color, and as a period stingy, quite a find.



Nice Wormser, and that size is going to make it quite desirable. Too bad it does not fit you.


Very interesting hat again Stefan. The liner tip oil skin is pristine. The lines of this one are appealing.


This one is a corker! Who is the maker of this one, European? I need a topper, well actually I just lust after a topper. It would come in handy for events with our local historical society (1860s period costumes). Gives me a real reason to have one, right...

Welcome back, Mike. Good to see you posting again. Thanks for the likes on the hats. The martora is one that lodged itself in my mind and wouldn't let go. Good to have if for nothing else than the story. Finding a Cervo is always a nice surprise and this one is in wonderful condition too. The "need" for a topper is noted (thank goodness you're not the same size as Brent).
Steve's topper is this one:
https://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/toppers-unite.36577/page-38#post-2284765
Probably made by Spoorenberg of Eindhoven.

 

[steur]

Yesterday I showed off a mysterious box, bought for gambling, containing preformed felt cones and finished or almost Borsalino hats. Today, instead, a purchase of a batch of Italian hats from the 70s. All the operations took place in 2018, then I kept the rule of not buying more material for the hat collection, especially not of my size. I lasted for three months, but last week I found a lot of Borsalino almost my size, but we'll talk about it. Meanwhile we see the backlog.
Super Barbisio Extra Lusso size is 6 so a 59 cm. or 7 3/8

Felt is in good conditions, a little bit with "solarization" that changed the tone of the felt

Sweatband is a hardly worn and it needs some work
Borsalino Qualità Superiore, size is 6 so a 59 cm. or 7 3/8 US

Felt is light and in good conditions, but it was exposed in the sun so it has a little changed, interior is quite good.

Borsalino Misto Qualità Superiore, size is 6 1/2 so a 60 cm. or 7 1/2 US

Felt needs some work to put it in a good flexibility, the interior is good except the sweatband that needs reconditioning

They are in dry dock and patiently arrive in the closet

Actually I think three months not buying hats is an amazing amount of restraint. The felt cones are interesting and I can't wait to see what our favourite hatter makes of them. These are already fully bloomed. I am predictable: I like the heather one best.

 

[steur]

Stetson St. Regis in a nice gray that I fished out of the Bay a couple of weeks ago. See how behind I am in posting...shame. Made the seller an offer that was more reasonable and picked it up. This one is rather interesting in a few ways. It was sold at the "Company Store" on Chestnut Steet in Philly, nice. The size tag has the original price ($12.95 in 1955) but is an unusual configuration, not a keyhole size tag (??) The only manufacturing tag is not under the sweat, but attached to it. And to top it all off - a stamped date on the sweat of March 15, 1955! Have not gotten a chance to wear it in public yet. The felt is very fresh and new, the brim just a little wonky. Steam will help. It came in a period box, not sure if it is 1955 vintage or not.
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Very beautiful and a great find, Mike. My favourite colour combination on a homburg.

 

[AbbaDatDeHat]

Stetson St. Regis in a nice gray that I fished out of the Bay a couple of weeks ago. See how behind I am in posting...shame. Made the seller an offer that was more reasonable and picked it up. This one is rather interesting in a few ways. It was sold at the "Company Store" on Chestnut Steet in Philly, nice. The size tag has the original price ($12.95 in 1955) but is an unusual configuration, not a keyhole size tag (??) The only manufacturing tag is not under the sweat, but attached to it. And to top it all off - a stamped date on the sweat of March 15, 1955! Have not gotten a chance to wear it in public yet. The felt is very fresh and new, the brim just a little wonky. Steam will help. It came in a period box, not sure if it is 1955 vintage or not.
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Hey Mike good to see you back. You have been missed. Very nice Homy.
A couple points, if memory serves.
Hasn’t discussion concluded that Stetson hats, of that era, used that size/price tag for long ovals exclusively, whereas non-long ovals used the standard keyhole tag?
Also, i believe recently a very knowledgable Stetson lounger made the statement that the stamped date, inside the Stetson sweatbands was a Chestnut Street product exclusively. Like i said, could be wrong, the brain hard drive is pretty fragmented. Lol
Again, great to hear from you.
Be well. Bowen

 

[AbbaDatDeHat]

Well, they are there if you really really need one and you can always put in an offer

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Gulp!!

 

[deadlyhandsome]

Well, they are there if you really really need one and you can always put in an offer

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Do you think he’d move the decimal two places to the left?


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[Steve1857]

Very impressive the mix between an homburg and a top hat. Where it come from?


I will do my best, thanks. Today Im more groggy, but less waste of paper.
In the meantime I have time for the "next" new hats parade

Glad to hear you're on the mend, Daniele, even if it is going slowly.
The Homburg is a Lembert, German I believe.
Here are some photos taken by Stefan.

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[steur]

Do you think he’d move the decimal two places to the left?


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Maybe if you'd point out there's some damage to the brim binding...

 

[Steve1857]

This one is a corker! Who is the maker of this one, European? I need a topper, well actually I just lust after a topper. It would come in handy for events with our local historical society (1860s period costumes). Gives me a real reason to have one, right...[/QUOTE]



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[Steve1857]

This one is a corker! Who is the maker of this one, European? I need a topper, well actually I just lust after a topper. It would come in handy for events with our local historical society (1860s period costumes). Gives me a real reason to have one, right...

Sent from my HUAWEI VNS-L31 using Tapatalk[/QUOTE]I posted before replying. Oops [emoji4]
Redfokker posted the message.
Red, you definitely need a topper, no question.
Mine is Dutch.

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[Steve1857]

Send it back! Just kidding of course, Steve. Looks good on you (the crown seems to have grown taller). A hat is meant to be worn and it just wasn't getting enough headtime with me, so I'm glad it found a worthy home.

Thanks Stefan. I'm glad I finally got it in my collection and on my head. It's a Homburg to behold [emoji4]

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[Steve1857]

Stetson St. Regis in a nice gray that I fished out of the Bay a couple of weeks ago. See how behind I am in posting...shame. Made the seller an offer that was more reasonable and picked it up. This one is rather interesting in a few ways. It was sold at the "Company Store" on Chestnut Steet in Philly, nice. The size tag has the original price ($12.95 in 1955) but is an unusual configuration, not a keyhole size tag (??) The only manufacturing tag is not under the sweat, but attached to it. And to top it all off - a stamped date on the sweat of March 15, 1955! Have not gotten a chance to wear it in public yet. The felt is very fresh and new, the brim just a little wonky. Steam will help. It came in a period box, not sure if it is 1955 vintage or not.
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Super hat and box. Nice to see you back, Mike.

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[drmaxtejeda]

This one made it over from Greece (of all places). Not my style, not my colour and it appears not my size. Still had to have it.
Borsalino Martora in the colour Gaggia (google translate comes up empty handed on that one). Size 56 (but seems to have shrunk a size), with the raw edge brim at 4,5cm and the crown at 9,5 cm at the center dent. It has the full appearance of a "little hat" (which I don't like). I wanted it because of the "martora" felt (pine marten). Seems not many of those are around (Daniele has one) and there is one in Timothiescloset's Ebay shop. Lovely hand to the felt and very lightweight. Not "as light as light" as the sweatband would have you believe, but with 76 grams certainly not a heavy puncher. The colour is not that bad actually (Max!); a very dark green.
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I can't find the one in Timothies

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[steur]

I can't find the one in Timothies

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It's this one, Max. Not advertised as a martora.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Gray-Borsa...=2730628093169d2b78c310d243378e8c2f28fb9c59ff

 

[drmaxtejeda]

It's this one, Max. Not advertised as a martora.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Gray-Borsa...=2730628093169d2b78c310d243378e8c2f28fb9c59ff

450? Gee. Is the felt really nice, Stefan?

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[Tukwila]

450? Gee. Is the felt really nice, Stefan?

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I'm still looking for the hat the TC has priced "right." IMO, don't pay his asking price.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

I'm still looking for the hat the TC has priced "right." IMO, don't pay his asking price.

+1

I know in the past he’s accepted offers of less than half his asking price.


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[drmaxtejeda]

It's this one, Max. Not advertised as a martora.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Gray-Borsa...=2730628093169d2b78c310d243378e8c2f28fb9c59ff

Got it, Stefan. Looks like even he can be reasonable.

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[steur]

Got it, Stefan. Looks like even he can be reasonable.

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That's the one. Have you bought it already, Max?

 

[Daniele Tanto]

Often buying hats is fun, sometimes the stories of the hats become a thread in the history of some place or some person. Some of these hats belonged to a single owner, rich Sicilian landowner. Finished with the furniture and furnishings of his house in a junk dealer warehouse, I recovered them after a long and amusing negotiation. I didn't want the furniture, very many, but only the hats. Easy to say, more difficult to achieve
Barbisio Qualità Extra size is 6 1/2 or 60 cm. 7 1/2 US

The felt was assaulted by moths and I think it will be difficult to be "rebuilt"

Alexander Sport size in UK measurement 7 3/8 or 60 cm. It is the wider of the three

Lovely hat in heather green felt with frayed bow

Panizza For Ever size is 60 cm. or 7 1/2 US

Sturdy heather felt in grey, I suspect it is a mixed. Contrasting ribbon

This salesman, on the other hand, seems to specialize in hats of some disaster. These seem to have suffered from humidity and even flooding even if they are new.
Albertini. Linea Panizza. Size is supposed to be 59

The felt has a lovely short hair finish, the sweatband is dead and it need some works. The color is great

Brasiliano, tagged 60 cm or 7 1/2 Us is now, after humidity a 58 cm.

Interior is new and the black felt is really nice. I think it was made in Monza during the 50 or 60

They are still sitting in my office ready to be send to the hatter for a new life