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  1. MikeinRome

    The Penney's Marathon

    J C Penney's Marathon boater, made in Baltimore, where the Solar Straws hats had been made for Penney's. Don't know if Penney's bought Solar Straws or had always owned the Solar Straws brand name or what exactly happened. This hat is on eBay.
  2. MikeinRome

    What hat are you waiting for today?

    Here's another but earlier Solar Straws hat for J C Penney's that Brent posted on The Boater Faction thread in September 2020.
  3. MikeinRome

    What hat are you waiting for today?

    Solar Straws Panama hat made for J C Penney's. Notice that on the sweatband that it's shown in the same type of logo used for Marathon hats from around the 1940's period or so. I'm starting to wonder if Solar Straws was actually a made-up in-house brand like Marathon was.
  4. MikeinRome

    The Disney Diner

    Wow! Thanks for that. No wonder it doesn't feel like a ribbon! That's my first time encountering such a thing.
  5. MikeinRome

    The Disney Diner

    Additional pics of my Disney boater, now that it has arrived. Hat was priced at $6.50. The ribbon needs replacing and someone sewed over the existing ribbon.
  7. MikeinRome

    The Penney's Marathon

    Marathon Extra Quality. Has 2 3/4 inch brim and 5 1/4 inch open crown. The hat has been stretched some, so the brim might have been 2 7/8 originally. Priced at $3.98, that has to be back in time a bit.
  8. MikeinRome

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

    If it's sewn in, maybe it is original. I sure don't claim to know everything. Nice hat anyway.
  9. MikeinRome

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

    I'm not sure that liner is original to the hat. Nothing about the liner says Mallory to me. Just what I suspect.
  10. MikeinRome

    Stetson Sweat Stamps/ LOT XXXX

    Don't recall anybody appointing you as the Fedora Lounge Police.
  11. MikeinRome

    Stetson Sweat Stamps/ LOT XXXX

    I'm not here to please you. If you don't like my posts, just consider that they are not directed to you or for you and go about your life. I might not have this attitude if you ever did anything constructive, but all I see from you is gripping and complaining and criticizing what others do.
  13. MikeinRome

    The Disney Diner

    This is the hat with the same colored liner logo as my Disney straw boater.
  14. MikeinRome

    The Disney Diner

    All of this Disney talk today made me start Jonesing for one, so I bought an old straw boater Disney a little while ago. I only see one other hat on this Disney thread with the exact same colors in the Disney liner logo. It's on page 6 of thread. Brad Bowers said that hat was from the Crofut &...
  15. MikeinRome

    Stetson Sweat Stamps/ LOT XXXX

    The fastest way you can prove me wrong is for you to start a thread listing all of the known hat manufacturers who had Lot Numbers exactly like that on the back of their sweatbands. Shouldn't take you long- I'd say about 5 minutes, since the grand total of such hatmakers IS EXACTLY ZERO!!!
  16. MikeinRome

    Stetson Sweat Stamps/ LOT XXXX

    I'm not remarking about your intelligence. I'm remarking about your lack of same.
  17. MikeinRome

    The Disney Diner

    Blare, I was thinking a lot of the same things you said, so you saved me the time of writing it. In fact, seems to me that hats labeled as Mr Disney in the 50's and 60's are only a small minority, while those labeled just Disney are in the distinct majority.
  19. MikeinRome

    Stetson Sweat Stamps/ LOT XXXX

    I really thought you were smarter than that.
  20. MikeinRome

    The STETSON WAY, Advertising and ephemera of the Golden Era

    Article in The American Hatter, August 1911, about Stetson soon to be opening a store in New York City, about in October 1911. Also a Stetson ad in the same issue of The American Hatter.
  21. MikeinRome

    The STETSON WAY, Advertising and ephemera of the Golden Era

    Advertisement in the July 1912 issue of The American Hatter giving statistics about Stetson hatmaking for the year 1911.
  22. MikeinRome

    Collective History of Stetson Hats

    An advertisement in the July 1912 issue of The American Hatter giving statistics about Stetson hatmaking for the year 1911.
  23. MikeinRome

    Stetson Sweat Stamps/ LOT XXXX

    "The Sheridan" model hat made for the Bloom Shoe & Clothing Co of Sheridan, Wyoming. It has a mfg tag for Thanhauser Hat Co, but it also has a Stetson Lot Number on the sweatband, Lot Number 224X, so Stetson must have made this hat. I think the hat dates approximately 1912 offhand, and I'm...

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