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[Alive'n'Amplified]

Interesting. I've learned something new. Now you'll have to start a 'Show us Your Leghorns' thread, since they're so hard to come by. I'm sure it gets mistaken for a Milan quite easily.

 

[Aureliano]

Wow, Lefty and Ale, good to see you two back!!!

I'll raise a glass to that. :eusa_clap

For sure!!

Indeed.

Ale, nice to see you, old man.

Thanks guys. We'll see how it goes.

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

Ale great to see you again and Lefty too. I hope all is well.

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

New cap from Johnny more info in his thread.

 

[bond]

Cookie , nice straw and nicely worded description I might add, makes me want to get one myself!

 

[alanfgag]

Stetson Clear Nutria/ Nutria Quality c. 1940

More photos and description on the Pre-1940s-Stetson-Westerns thread.

 

[Alive'n'Amplified]

Man, that is one THIN ribbon!! Cool one, Alan.

 

[Rick Blaine]

Yet another Stetson 3x

I love these things, tough durable workingman's hats made to take a likin'.

This makes the second this week. I wish the embroidered liner was in this one as well, but I have a spare, unless this one is sewn in place.

Anyone know the cryptic meaning in this behind the sweatband stamp?

 

[alanfgag]

Anyone know the cryptic meaning in this behind the sweatband stamp?

Have a look at the orange tag behind the rear of the sweatband. I think you might have a match.

 

[alanfgag]

Man, that is one THIN ribbon!! Cool one, Alan.

Thanks... here's some more skinny:

left, similar era 5X clear beaver with the same two cord... right, 1950s 7X western with a single cord, slightly fatter.

 

[bond]

Nice one Alan , nutria is my favorite felt as it is nice to work ,takes a bash well and has a nice hand to it.

 

[Alive'n'Amplified]

My first homburg! In transit now. A fellow lounger helped me find this one, so I owe many thanks to him!! :thumb:

 

[cookie]

New cap from Johnny more info in his thread.

Johnny does it again...

 

[Landman]

Alan,

Great hat! When I first saw it on EBay I had a feeling you would be watching it

Do you think the "Tailored Edge" has to do with the sweatband rather than the brim? The brim doesn't look like it has had anything special done to it.

 

[alanfgag]

Alan,
Do you think the "Tailored Edge" has to do with the sweatband rather than the brim? The brim doesn't look like it has had anything special done to it.

I don't think so... this type of imprint and branding (i.e. mode-edge, selv-edge) from the late 1930s seems to apply to brim edge treatments. As RLK pointed out in the pre-1940s Stetson Western thread, "Tailored Edge" appears in advertising as "new" in connection with an early Whippet model in 1937. Despite the many Whippets that have passed through these pages, I can't recall seeing one that early or one with a raw rather than ribbon bound brim edge. I might have guessed this brim to be cut, had it not been for this sibling auctioned off by a lounge member earlier this year.

 

[buler]

I don't think so... this type of imprint and branding (i.e. mode-edge, selv-edge) from the late 1930s seems to apply to brim edge treatments. As RLK pointed out in the pre-1940s Stetson Western thread, "Tailored Edge" appears in advertising as "new" in connection with an early Whippet model in 1937. Despite the many Whippets that have passed through these pages, I can't recall seeing one that early or one with a raw rather than ribbon bound brim edge. I might have guessed this brim to be cut, had it not been for this sibling auctioned off by a lounge member earlier this year.

Alan, I have a hat that I posted in the Whippet thread that has a raw edge. I've always assumed it was either trimmed or the Whippet liner was put into a different hat.

Here is the hat: RawWhippet

The liner doesn't look anywhere near the 30's....

B

 

[Landman]

That's interesting. Maybe the brim edge was cut in some different manner.

 

[alanfgag]

Yes, that liner and sweatband appear to be 1950s era. I worked on the clear nutria hat this morning. It appears to be original as a 322 block 5 1/2" crown with a brim width of 3"... perhaps the influence of more urban western wear that would ride into town in a bigger way with the Open Road.

 

[rlk]

Alan, I have a hat that I posted in the Whippet thread that has a raw edge. I've always assumed it was either trimmed or the Whippet liner was put into a different hat.

Here is the hat: RawWhippet

The liner doesn't look anywhere near the 30's....

B

There is an Air-Light Whippet with Mode Edge, Standard Quality
Feraud's

 

[alanfgag]

Early Mode-Edge is barely there...on the 3X Imperial Stetson, 35 sweatband lots earlier than the Clear Nutria.