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Crofut & Knapp Tales

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Crofut & Knapp Derby

A pearl from the derby/homburg cabinet in my wife's costume shop wardrobe:

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Great suspension weave between the sweatband and the hat body:

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Originally sold from a shop in Buffalo's historic downtown Statler Hilton:

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I will bring this one out in the light for some exterior photos. Thanks for the info on the sweatband construction. I have seen it mostly on boaters. I tried it on (it's a 7 1/8) and it makes for a very comfortable fit.
 

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Interesting that the Bon Ton Ivy idea claimed to have the benefit of preventing baldness as well - see Dinerman's post in the thread Brad linked to.
 

Joshbru3

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Crofut & Knapp Derby
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Alan, that C&K Derby is absolutely superb!! I love that suspension weave of the sweatband, thats the mark of true craftsmanship. I just recently won a C&K homburg from Rilico that I will be posting pictures of this week. Even though the unreeded sweatband has broken almost all of its stitches (pretty common for those) all the materials are extremely high quality. The sweatband is beautifully wide and soft. Do you have a head shot of you wearing this Beautiful Derby?
 
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Hi Josh... I admired that one, but my cup of black homburgs runneth over. Glad you got it and I'm looking forward to your pictures. I will have some additional shots of the C&K derby shortly.
 

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Hi Josh... I admired that one, but my cup of black homburgs runneth over. Glad you got it and I'm looking forward to your pictures. I will have some additional shots of the C&K derby shortly.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news......but the homburg is actually a beautiful shade of dark navy blue. For some reason Rilico said it was black. :tape2:
 

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