mattface
Practically Family
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- Location
- Montpelier, VT
Matt, What you have is a very rare hat, that I've only seen in old advertisments.
You know when I picked it up, I suspected it was unusual, an i KNEW I had to have it, but I didn't suspect it to be as rare as it apparently is. I'm having no luck finding pictures of another one like it and so far I haven't found the vintage ads you speak of either. Could you point me to one?
Looking at the grime on the sweatband, it strikes me this hat was used as it was intended to be used as a casual outdoorsy hat to wear in hot, potentially grimy situations. I suspect most of them were worn that way which along with the super thin felt may explain why it's so difficult to find one.
With that in mind I may be having second thoughts about using this as my summer hat since it really deserves preserving. In fact I might not even replace the ribbon as that ribbon is a part of this hats history, anything can be restored, but it can only be original once, and this might be one of those situations where an original example is hard enough to find that it would be a shame to destroy one.