3 Antique Shop Finds (2 borsalinos and an adam)

[Dinerman]

 

[WEEGEE]

Wow Man!!!

Tell the truth Dinerman... stop holding out...you have found the mythical everlasting hat tree.:eusa_clap

 

[BJBAmerica]

Great finds.....Congrats!! :eusa_clap

 

[Baron Kurtz]

excellent finds Dinerman . . .

ahhh, but do they fit you? If the grey is small and you want to sell, i'm interested.

bk

 

[Duck]

SWEEEET!!!!!

Very nice, Dinerman. :eusa_clap The brown Borsalino really speaks to me.

 

[akaBruno]

You have the best damn nose for finding those.

Bruno

 

[MrNewportCustom]

Very nice, Dinerman. Great deal! Are they your size?

The Adam is calling my name. lol


Lee . . .
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. . . who needs to start a hat collection of his own.

 

[J.T.Marcus]

Dinerman, Super finds. Great price. I'm curious. What's your last count?

 

[AlanC]

Fantastic! I love that first Borsalino.

 

[thunderw21]

That Adam is quite nice. The color contrast does the trick.

 

[Bud-n-Texas]

So these will be for sale when?​

We hit up an antique store in Salisbury on the way to the art camp at Salisbury University. Wound up fining all three of these at the one store. Paid a bit less than 50 bucks for the bunch.


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The borsalinos are too small, but they were just so beautiful, in such pristine condition, and I couldn't pass them up for 16 bucks each. The Adam's a 7-3/8 but has shrunk down to a small 7-1/4, so it's good. I'm going to change the bash in it. Keep the same shape to it, but what's currently in it is just a bit too shallow for my liking.

The borsalinos were pretty well hidden. They were both crammed in one box, with the lid on and the strap tied, midway down a stack of empty boxes, hidden behind and under a pile of women's clothes. I saw the top box of the stack and just dug until I hit these.

I bet someone had hid them, expecting to come back again and get them.

They're keepers, but if I interpret your last comment correctly, you don't aprove of collecting, so to avoid conflict, I'll take the post down.

 

[Tango Yankee]

Well, darn.

I clicked on this thread looking forward to being happily jealous of Dinerman's latest amazing finds, and... no hats to be jealous of. Bummer. Guess I'll go back outside and do some more weed whacking.

Sounds like they were nice, though.

Cheers,
Tom

 

[RBH]

I really liked the one with the bound edge.

 

[Dinerman]

I really liked the one with the bound edge.

I do to. I regretted that it went home with my parents while I was at Salisbury University.
A week into the camp, when my brent started disintegrating (what with the crown and the brim separating even more in the front and the back, presumably from someone putting it on and taking it off, and the holes in the crown opening up) I really wished I'd kept this one with me. It may have a bit of mothing and a dingy liner, but it's solid, and looks a whole heck of a lot better than a holey hat.

Here's a question for you all- The hat says on the sweatband that adam sold sportswear. Has anyone seen, or does anyone own any Adam sportswear?

 

[Baron Kurtz]

really? Can you please show that sweatband?

bk

 

[Dinerman]

Hey, Baron.
Here's the shot of the sweatband on the Adam.

while we're on sweatbands- check out the sweatband on the grey one compared to that of a bone colored one I got a few months back.

One says Mascotta, one says Mascotte. The addresses and all the info on the liner and the sweatbands are the same, so I'm assuming they both came from the same place, and the script is the same, but what's the difference between Mascotta and Mascotte, do you think?

 

[nulty]

The Adam Lifestyle

I've got a pic of an Adam Hats storefront I used as an Avatar for awhile....

It's all there..

I can't load it though....drat

 

[DOUGLAS]

I don't know how you do it Dman. Fantastic:eusa_clap :eusa_clap

 

[Benny Holiday]

Nice finds Dinerman!

 

[tonyb]

This is why I don't begrudge secondhand/vintage dealers their sometimes gargantuan markups. It takes time, dedication, a good eye, a bit of capital and a touch of luck to acquire the stuff that may or may not resell for enough to make the exercise worthwhile.
Dinerman is adding these fine lids to his personal collection. As a collector who himself glories in a bargain, I'm happy for the young man. And for myself, because it reminds me that bargains are still out there.
And should he someday decide that he wants to pass them along, a markup of several hundred percent would still yield a reasonable deal for the buyer. In the meanwhile, the hats are in good hands. Which is great, considering that they could just as easily have been bought by someone who would have ruined them in fairly short order. You know, like some no-talent street busker who would use one as a spare-change receptacle, placed upside down on a dirty, damp sidewalk. Or a member of the landed class, who figures that an old hat like that would be just the thing for gardening in the rain. :eusa_doh: