HatsEnough
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Glad to hear that, Alan.
As you can tell from all my posts on this, I am a tad excited about this one. I hate to seem like a child but I almost jumped up and down when I got that last bid.
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Glad to hear that, Alan.
As you can tell from all my posts on this, I am a tad excited about this one. I hate to seem like a child but I almost jumped up and down when I got that last bid.
MDphoto
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HatsEnough, I'm really excited to hear more about it when you receive it. We are going to need a lot pics!
T Rick
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Hey, enjoy it! I got excited even spotting it on eBay, and I didn't even bid. I thought it completely original too, though I'm far from an expert. Probably not at all common, because they were obviously quite expensive in their time. I suspect when you compare prices of other vintage hats now to what they went for back in the day, you actually got quite a bargain on this one. Do you think that story would work on your wife? 
MDphoto
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Hey, enjoy it! I got excited even spotting it on eBay, and I didn't even bid. I thought it completely original too, though I'm far from an expert. Probably not at all common, because they were obviously quite expensive in their time. I suspect when you compare prices of other vintage hats now to what they went for back in the day, you actually got quite a bargain on this one. Do you think that story would work on your wife?
Think it would just easier to hide it. Let it blend into the collection. Lol
T Rick
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Depends on his poker face. I'll bet that wide grin he'll get from that hat will give him away
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HatsEnough
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LOL.
Yeah, It would be easier just to try and hide it.
As to what you were saying on prices, TRick, I agree. I think we are paying a fraction of what the original prices adjusted for inflation would be in many cases. Thinking of how a Stetson 100 went for $100 in 1950 and a like Stetson today is over $1,000, the fact that vintage ones rarely get over $400 today on the bay tells me that we are paying no where near the original prices.
The only exception is the hats that are trending. Like Whippets, or Playboys.
I mean, a Whippet was a $10 hat in the old days. A modern Whippet is going for just under $200. A vintage one seems to fluctuate from between $150 to $300 (except sometimes those size 7 and under often don't even hit the $150 mark).
Anyway, I think if I paid what I paid for that 7X, it is way under the adjusted for inflation price that the original buyer did back in the day.
Yeah, It would be easier just to try and hide it.
As to what you were saying on prices, TRick, I agree. I think we are paying a fraction of what the original prices adjusted for inflation would be in many cases. Thinking of how a Stetson 100 went for $100 in 1950 and a like Stetson today is over $1,000, the fact that vintage ones rarely get over $400 today on the bay tells me that we are paying no where near the original prices.
The only exception is the hats that are trending. Like Whippets, or Playboys.
I mean, a Whippet was a $10 hat in the old days. A modern Whippet is going for just under $200. A vintage one seems to fluctuate from between $150 to $300 (except sometimes those size 7 and under often don't even hit the $150 mark).
Anyway, I think if I paid what I paid for that 7X, it is way under the adjusted for inflation price that the original buyer did back in the day.
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That is a beautiful lid HE. Good thing it wasn't in my size or I'd have had to fight you for it.
HatsEnough
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Now I have to try and go to sleep. It will be hard with that dang thing dancing in my head.
See you guys later.
See you guys later.
Check out this thread for more wide ribbon CBs. I think that I've seen around five or six. Yours might be the first one with a wide bound edge.
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Sucked in again
Stetson Forty
I caved in and violated my self-imposed hat buying moratorium. Damn Ebay bucks. :censored:
Stetson Forty
I caved in and violated my self-imposed hat buying moratorium. Damn Ebay bucks. :censored:
I wouldn't have been able to pass that up if it were a 7 3/8 or 7 1/2.
Terry "The Hat"
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I saw that one and was gonna ask on here what the "Mad Men" meant on there. I've never seen that before.
It's a popular show set in the late 50's/early 60's about advertising executives. They are always sporting fedoras on the show...
Justin B
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It's in reference to the television show.
bowlerman
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I'm not sure how to feel about this:
Just walked into an antique shop that I frequent, and the clerk had 4 new hats, mint condition, all 7 3/8 (a little too big for me, but I would have considered padding them nonetheless), and she hadn't even priced them yet. Among these hats were a tan/pecan Stetson 4X OR, a soft stingy black Kevin McAndrew 5X velour, a tweed London Fog and a cheap looking straw Resistol cowboy hat.
I asked what she wanted for them, and the reply was "hold on a minute-- let me check ebay." A few minutes later, $55 each for the OR and McAndrew.
Ouch! So much for getting a good deal out of a small midwest shop anymore (at least according to my own wallet)! I probably would've done it for the OR, if it were my size, but I'm used to getting bargain basement prices from these places. Oh, well.
Just walked into an antique shop that I frequent, and the clerk had 4 new hats, mint condition, all 7 3/8 (a little too big for me, but I would have considered padding them nonetheless), and she hadn't even priced them yet. Among these hats were a tan/pecan Stetson 4X OR, a soft stingy black Kevin McAndrew 5X velour, a tweed London Fog and a cheap looking straw Resistol cowboy hat.
I asked what she wanted for them, and the reply was "hold on a minute-- let me check ebay." A few minutes later, $55 each for the OR and McAndrew.
Ouch! So much for getting a good deal out of a small midwest shop anymore (at least according to my own wallet)! I probably would've done it for the OR, if it were my size, but I'm used to getting bargain basement prices from these places. Oh, well.
HatsEnough
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Stupid Internets!
Neophyte
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I was bidding like crazy on that one, and I was the second-to-last bidder. The winning bid hiked it up $70 + in the last 5 seconds, leaving me absolutely infuriated!
I will never win.
I will never win.
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Oh well lol.