You're welcome! He served out West to start - first in rural Alberta, just outside of Edmonton, then spent a few years in mining towns in the Rockies. After that came several years working plain clothes in Manitoba, and then some time at HQ in Ottawa. They used to get moved around more in...
So, I took a close look at my father's RCMP Stetson. It has a 5" rounded crown when open, rather than the flat-topped crown of your example. The hat band looks pretty much identical, oxblood leather with leather wrapping on the buckle loop. However the hatband does not have that little tab on...
Thanks for the info in this discussion! I've been wearing pocket watches for about 30 years now, and have often worn them in the breast pocket of my jacket with the chain linked through the lapel button hole (chain forward). Since reading these postings, I've now made a leather watch guard...
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