Thank you so much Mark. It was Stefan who found it, so all cudos to him. I was lucky enough that it wasn't his size [emoji4].
I love your and other folks early catalog postings. Wish I had rembered to download and save them all. I understand exactly what you mean about this one being a soft hat. It is indeed, and not a stiff felt Homburg.
I would surmise, though, that that is how Homburgs were conceived to be back then and indeed how we expect them to be now: stiff felts that can't be brimmed down.
In my mind, a Fedora can be worn brim up, I sometimes do with some of mine as we all do, or brim down. It has these two possibilities. The brim on the Harald, however, cannot be worn down, only up. Therefore, and again, in my mind it's a Homburg, or at least in the family of. A soft felt Homburg, though perhaps a misnomer, is, perhaps, a better name for this one. Better than the misnomer Fedora in my humble opinion.
As you say Mark, whatever one wishes to call it, it's a great hat, and one heck of a piece of history [emoji145].
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