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Stevens Pace-Setter “The Royalist” California Weight. Cool two-tone ribbon.

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wsmontana

Practically Family
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Here is a recent pick up that I haven’t been able to find additional information on. It was manufactured in 2011 and everything seems top quality. The fur felt is very dense and velvety soft. The liner, hat band, and sweatband seem to be superior to Royal or Royal Deluxe offerings of the same era but there are no quality markings on the hat. Has anyone run across a hat like this?

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gilligan

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Today I drove 2.5 hours to pick up this beauty. I've been eyeing it for over a week on Facebook marketplace and decided I couldn't beat the price (100.00) and rarity of this vintage Resistol. When I picked it up the gentleman told me it was his grandfather's hat and after he passed away, they found it stored away in his attic and no one in the family wanted it, and from all indications, it was never worn. The color is gorgeous, the leather sweat is mint and pliable with no wear marks anywhere on the hat. Beautiful early Resistol.
 

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Here is a recent pick up that I haven’t been able to find additional information on. It was manufactured in 2011 and everything seems top quality. The fur felt is very dense and velvety soft. The liner, hat band, and sweatband seem to be superior to Royal or Royal Deluxe offerings of the same era but there are no quality markings on the hat. Has anyone run across a hat like this?

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Cool ribbon work. I’d be tempted to think it was post production... but then a look at that fancy liner tells me it may have been all original.
 
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Today I drove 2.5 hours to pick up this beauty. I've been eyeing it for over a week on Facebook marketplace and decided I couldn't beat the price (100.00) and rarity of this vintage Resistol. When I picked it up the gentleman told me it was his grandfather's hat and after he passed away, they found it stored away in his attic and no one in the family wanted it, and from all indications, it was never worn. The color is gorgeous, the leather sweat is mint and pliable with no wear marks anywhere on the hat. Beautiful early Resistol.
That is a beauty in fantastic shape. Incredible deal and a great find especially in your size. Congratulations
 
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Stetson Musketeer - Champagne
4 5/8 crown as shaped - about 5 1/2 open
1 5/8 Duo-Tone Grosgrain Ribbon (Champagne/Maroon)
2 3/4 Brim with 1/8 Champagne binding and triple stitching

I am very grateful to @BobHufford that he reached out and offered this Stetson Musketeer to me. I have another one of these with the light colored liner and it was cool to get one with the maroon liner tip. For some reason I did not realize this one was in a different colored felt. The other ones I have seen including mine have been a very light blue grey felt with a silver/maroon duo ribbon. Possibly I may have seen a slightly darker grey version. I think that left me to assume the yellow tones I saw in the photos was just lighting. In fact this Musketeer is an entirely different color scheme with a beautiful champagne colored felt along with a champagne and maroon duo tone ribbon. The Musketeer styling is completed with the 2 3/4 brim bound in matching grosgrain along with three rows of decorative stitching.

The Stetson Musketeer was a model named only via magazine advertisements in 1950 the name does not appear anywhere on the hats themselves. Their unique styling though makes them easy to identify.

Thanks so much to Bob for keeping me in mind for this one. I am so happy to have this great example in my collection. It is truly one of those hats I find myself taking off to admire.

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1961MJS

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Norman Oklahoma
Hi, I thought that the Musketeer Ribbons were three different colors, maroon, a tone between Maroon and the top Cream color. Two of those look the same color.
later
 
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Nederland
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Stetson Musketeer - Champagne
4 5/8 crown as shaped - about 5 1/2 open
1 5/8 Duo-Tone Grosgrain Ribbon (Champagne/Maroon)
2 3/4 Brim with 1/8 Champagne binding and triple stitching

I am very grateful to @BobHufford that he reached out and offered this Stetson Musketeer to me. I have another one of these with the light colored liner and it was cool to get one with the maroon liner tip. For some reason I did not realize this one was in a different colored felt. The other ones I have seen including mine have been a very light blue grey felt with a silver/maroon duo ribbon. Possibly I may have seen a slightly darker grey version. I think that left me to assume the yellow tones I saw in the photos was just lighting. In fact this Musketeer is an entirely different color scheme with a beautiful champagne colored felt along with a champagne and maroon duo tone ribbon. The Musketeer styling is completed with the 2 3/4 brim bound in matching grosgrain along with three rows of decorative stitching.

The Stetson Musketeer was a model named only via magazine advertisements in 1950 the name does not appear anywhere on the hats themselves. Their unique styling though makes them easy to identify.

Thanks so much to Bob for keeping me in mind for this one. I am so happy to have this great example in my collection. It is truly one of those hats I find myself taking off to admire.

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It's a beauty, Joe. Congrats.
 
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Nederland
Panizza Sportsman longhair heather fedora in a nice silvergrey called Sardina. Size 58 with the overwelt brim at 6cm and the crown at 10,5 cm at the center dent. Weighs 120 grams.
This hat has been messed with. Not only by a few moths, who had a go at the underside of the brim and took a few nips here and there. That's the advantage of these longhair heather felts: you hardly notice it. The other one messing with it was standing on two legs (unless the moths changed the ribbon too). According to the label the ribbon is "fantasia", but that's not what's on the hat. Fantastia ribbons are those crotcheted affairs found on seventies hats. Well, taking that off is all good, right? Yes, but only if you do it without damaging the hat. And they did that here: right above the bow you can see a spot where the longhair finish is just gone. Pity really, because it's a lovely hat. It can be covered up of course with a wider ribbon or a feather and it's not that noticeable, but it's there nonetheless.

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Hi, I thought that the Musketeer Ribbons were three different colors, maroon, a tone between Maroon and the top Cream color. Two of those look the same color.
later
My experience has been two toned. usually Maroon and silver. This one using the champagne colors for the felt and upper ribbon along with the maroon. Maroon definitely seems to be common throughout any variations I have seen.

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This is the ad we see most from The Saturday Evening Post.


Some years back Fedoralover had Art do a musketeer inspired recreation that appears to have used three tones

https://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/resurrection-of-the-stetson-musketeer.56325/
 

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