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I want one!! Fantastic color, Purplesage.
A Whippet with both stars and maple leaf logos would seem to be 1950 to abut '55 or so, I'd feel, as they were using up the old stocks of pre-maple leaf guts.
Seems to me (and I hope someone will clarify) that Whippet stamped into the sweatband is an early 40s thing and the late 40s and into the 50s they only had Whippet on the liner (on the American-made hats, anyway. I know it was sometimes different on foreign-made versions).
Theories abound... I can share this hat (not a whippet) which came to me with a sales slip dated 1956. One might venture that the combination of stars and maple leaves is likely earlier than this.
It was a prominent store and likely moved clothing inventory by season.
I've owned two Whippets with the OPS tag, one with star logos (on both liner and sweatband) and one with leaf logos.
So this suggests that the timeframe for the switch from stars to maple leaf took place in the 1951-53 period - at least for the Whippet product.
It was a prominent store and likely moved clothing inventory by season. Stetson did not want their 1953 line sitting in retail stores in 1956. This hat sold at full price - not at a markdown.
Beautiful condition Buler