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Good job in taking care & being careful! Treasure what you have!Oh yeah and then there's this....the view from the dental mirror...looks like a reorder number? I chickened out on peeling the sweat back any further but I could see the edges of the red/orange tag with what looked like maybe some ink writing on it...I think the rest will have to remain a mystery.
Having said that, the agent that listed the hat was kind enough to inquire about the hat's history for me. She found that it belonged to "August Ekdiahl Johnson, a man of Swedish decent who settled in Decker, TX sometime before 1891. He worked in farming or the new Swedish settlement in Texas and the name was placed in the hat for identification in case of injury or death. He was the sole owner of the hat."
It's pretty fascinating to think of the history of things like this that have found their way to rest in our possession. I hope that this hat will stay with me for a long time to come.
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