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Do you need a LO flange for a LO hat or will a standard work well enough?
I prefer a LO for my hats, but mostly I use the flanges to freshen up hats I’m listing for sale.
Do you need a LO flange for a LO hat or will a standard work well enough?
Thanks Stefan. Figured I would take a stab at it for the price. I had no idea on age. was listed as wool.. but had no reason to believe that. Had no guesses really on age. It has arrived and I’ll be posting it up soon in new hats.Cool find, Joe. Failsworth held the UK license to produce Stetsons and made some very fine hats. Judging by the liner this appears a more modern one, but there's no reason why it shouldn't be a top quality hat.
I missed this so a bit late to the dance......it depends on what you are trying to do. If you want to put a snap back in the brim then you need a LO. If you are just looking to refresh the brim cupping and it is not too deep a cupping then you can likely get away with it. Soft hand and a bit of finesse and it should work.Do you need a LO flange for a LO hat or will a standard work well enough?
I just had to laugh... 4 years later that fringed bowler is still up on ebayNot bidding on that....the damn fringe is uneven!
Ebay is full of teachers with questionable credentials. This is a style of ribbon brim binding that appeared on homburgs in the mid 1950s - early 1960s. I've owned examples from Stetson and Cavanagh, which likely indicates that many makers active at that time gave the narrow brim binding a try. Custom work to adapt a fedora? No way methinks.Did I get schooled?
I have this Resistol St. Regis listed on eBay as a thin-binding Homburg.
"Dad" or his son think otherwise.
"That Resistol homburg is very nice too! I guess you know it’s not the classic homburg with the fully bound brim edge? Someone actually paid to get the brimmed rolled. Quite unique if you ask me!"
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I guess this OPS era Cavanagh had similar "custom" curling work (?).
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Very nice… with that velour like finish. I suspect if the liner was still in this hat it would indicate Marque Grand Luxe.Here's the Borsalino I got in the mail last weekend. It looks like the colour is Argento, which I assume to be silver and the model which is the Ecosti(?). There are so many pages in the Borsalino Brotherhood to get through, so it's almost a shame that there isn't a page (thread, or pinned) that just shows paper tags and estimated dates.
Very soft moldable hat and the velour feels divine. Interesting name for the colour as it doesn't really come across as silver to me, but more of a brown... it does shimmer a bit in the sunlight though.
Really cool hat, I'm liking it a lot. Second picture is very close to the colour of indoors and somewhere in between 1/2 for the colour outdoors.
Enjoy the sunshine if you've got it ! Off to enjoy a Locust Honey Pear Cider, cheers
Reminds me of an Akubra Territory (or Cattleman without brim ribbon) but with a Snowy River band, especially with those two eyelets and in that colour, both great hats! What a steal.Hello all. I picked up this hat for £25 and have never heard of the brand. It was described as being around 30 years old in the listing. A Google search hasn’t revealed much either. Anyone heard of ‘Ben Faulkner’? This particular hat reminds me a bit of Akubra’s ‘Snowy River’. It’s nothing particularly special, but the price felt right, and I like the style. Cheers.
Nice find and a great quality hat. There is a page in the Borsalino thread somewhere with all the colours, models and estimated dates. The update of that thread with the dates and labels can be found here:Here's the Borsalino I got in the mail last weekend. It looks like the colour is Argento, which I assume to be silver and the model which is the Ecosti(?). There are so many pages in the Borsalino Brotherhood to get through, so it's almost a shame that there isn't a page (thread, or pinned) that just shows paper tags and estimated dates.
Very soft moldable hat and the velour feels divine. Interesting name for the colour as it doesn't really come across as silver to me, but more of a brown... it does shimmer a bit in the sunlight though.
Really cool hat, I'm liking it a lot. Second picture is very close to the colour of indoors and somewhere in between 1/2 for the colour outdoors.
Enjoy the sunshine if you've got it ! Off to enjoy a Locust Honey Pear Cider, cheers
I suspect I was a marketing term they used for felts with that velour like finish and might have been made in different styles. The one I have is probably of a decade-ish after yours. I haven’t handled one quite as old as yours. Stefan or Daniele might be able to be more specific.@steur thank you, so then according to this it looks like mine is late 50's-early 60's.
So what exactly was the Marque Grand Luxe... was it a series (ie: x-xxxxx) each with a different finish? Originally seeing that term (MGL) interspersed in the BB thread, I had thought that it was the model of hat, but I see that my hat is marked Ecosti... so were all MGLs Ecostis? or were they different hat models as well?
Anyways I do really like the hat, which is really great condition besides some little stains on that ribbon and a few mars on the fur that a little brushing seems to cover.
Too many questions for Borsalino marketing in those years. The hats were branded according to agreements made with retailers anywhere in the world. It was a "personalization" of the hat that almost every retailer could boast as "exclusive". Then it should be added that Borsalino, the sales office, implemented customizations according to their methods for branding the hat. Having said this to confirm that there were flexible rules for branding hats. This "Marque Grand Luxe" was a high quality line, both velour and felt with other finishes.So what exactly was the Marque Grand Luxe... was it a series (ie: x-xxxxx) each with a different finish? Originally seeing that term (MGL) interspersed in the BB thread, I had thought that it was the model of hat, but I see that my hat is marked Ecosti... so were all MGLs Ecostis? or were they different hat models as well?
Grazie mille, DanieleThe color of the felt is perhaps "aged" and a cleaning could lead to the original color which is very different.
Indeed a great hat
The best, in my experience, Is to give It to a professional hatter for a cleaning.Grazie mille, Daniele
How does one go about cleaning/getting a velour felt cleaned?