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If someone changed the sweatband, then all you have is a hat. Not a named anything. The sweatband is the model and if that is gone, then it is no longer the model.
I had a Whippet that was only marked as such on the liner with nothing on the sweatband other than the normal Stetson markings.
To be an original hat it all has to be complete and, well, original. That said, if I replace a rotted sweatband does it stop being the model it was? Not to me, no more than if I replace a car’s worn out transmission with a new one...it’s no longer a matching serial number car, but it’s still the same model.