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Biltmore Genuine Milan
NWT but I'm not sure when it was made. The 1971 could be a product # or date? Slate color is a blue/green/gray. Quite nice Canadian hat and decent sweatband.
Found this bit about Ecuador Hat Co.
NEWS
John G. Macas, 72, longtime owner of Ecuador Hat Co. downtown
By Frederick N. Rasmussen | Frederick N. Rasmussen,SUN STAFF | March 10, 2001
John G. Macas, president and owner of a hat company that has kept Baltimoreans in fedoras, tweed caps and cream-colored Panamas for nearly 70 years, died Tuesday of heart failure. He was 72. Mr. Macas grew up in and worked his entire life at Ecuador Hat Co., the business that was founded by his father, Roberto Macas, in the early 1930s. Born in New York City, he was raised on Mulberry Street and attended Baltimore public schools. The elder Mr. Macas was born and raised in Ecuador and moved in 1925 to New York to work in a straw hat factory.
NWT but I'm not sure when it was made. The 1971 could be a product # or date? Slate color is a blue/green/gray. Quite nice Canadian hat and decent sweatband.
Found this bit about Ecuador Hat Co.
NEWS
John G. Macas, 72, longtime owner of Ecuador Hat Co. downtown
By Frederick N. Rasmussen | Frederick N. Rasmussen,SUN STAFF | March 10, 2001
John G. Macas, president and owner of a hat company that has kept Baltimoreans in fedoras, tweed caps and cream-colored Panamas for nearly 70 years, died Tuesday of heart failure. He was 72. Mr. Macas grew up in and worked his entire life at Ecuador Hat Co., the business that was founded by his father, Roberto Macas, in the early 1930s. Born in New York City, he was raised on Mulberry Street and attended Baltimore public schools. The elder Mr. Macas was born and raised in Ecuador and moved in 1925 to New York to work in a straw hat factory.