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[ruvort]

Off-white Belamey showed today:

 

[Blare]

Off-white Belamey showed today: View attachment 778430 View attachment 778431

Love the color and the wide brim binding

 

[mayserwegener]

Anton Peschel Dinkelsbühl "Norma", 57 cm, possibly late 1950s. The Black Felt has very nice Finish and Soft Hand. Shown here without Side Dents. I like that Anton Peschel Dinkelsbühl used a narrower Brim Binding on some of their Homburg Hats. The overall condition is excellent.

Open Crown

 

[Pellie]

Borsalino Toledo end '60's, early '70's came in, again in a plastic bag, why??? Littlebit of steam and it turned out to be a very nice hat. Great color, good proportions. It needs a littlebit of a stretch to fit completely well. So it's on the hatstretcher now.

 

[jeffgarf]

Borsalino Toledo end '60's, early '70's came in, again in a plastic bag, why??? Littlebit of steam and it turned out to be a very nice hat. Great color, good proportions. It needs a littlebit of a stretch to fit completely well. So it's on the hatstretcher now.
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With a Borsalino like that, the answer is "because it can."

 

[Pellie]

2nd one today: Wegener "Seal" in color Bamberg. My guess 50's or early 60's. Beautiful soft malleable felt. Chamois finish i think. You can shape it without steam. Good color and proportions. Also a nice windcord on it. Fits perfectly. Love this one.

 

[Pellie]

With a Borsalino like that, the answer is "because it can."

Yes agree, but i won't never send it like that :-(

 

[jeffgarf]

I just had a gentleman walk into my office back in Florida and said he knew I wanted to purchase his hat. I didn't know him, but he told my employee that we knew someone in common. He dropped off the hat below and said I could pay him when I returned to the country. Crazy story.

Anyway, I was sent photos and was immediately intrigued and made the deal. A Rockel Exquisit, black fedora with a shark gill back bow. It seems to be from the 80's or 90's, but the back bow is interesting to say the least. Can't wait to see it in person.


Edit: I remember now! I corresponded with an Etsy seller from Bulgaria who, when I expressed an interest, back in February, in the hat, told me she would send it with a friend from the Clearwater/St. Pete area to save on shipping, if I could wait. She and her friend came through!



Originally sold in Austria.

 

[DaveProc]

My friend Howard was one of the leads on the History Channel shoe Dig Fellas 20 years ago.
He is having a clean out and I just left his house with a box of treasures, some going to the museum I run, and some going home with me, including this tattered Knox bowler.

 

[mayserwegener]

Václav Čekan Praha, 58 cm, Crown Height 14 cm, Brim Length 31 cm, Brim Width 25 cm, possibly late 1920s. Václav Čekan Praha goes back to Austria Hungary and there might be a connection with P. & C. Habig Wien Berlin. I was made aware of this New Old Stock Silk Top Hat from a seller I know in the Czech Republic.

Center Rear.

Center Front.

Left Center Back to Front.

Right Center Back to Front.

Liner Stitching.

Side View of Hat Box with Václav Čekan Praha Silk Top Hat.

Side View of Hat Box.

Top View of Hat Box.

Inside of Hat Box Lid.

Inside of Hat Box.

The Inside Style Type and Location (Center Rear, Center Front, Right Center Back to Front, Left Center Back to Front) are similar to P. & C. Habig Wien Berlin.

P. & C. Habig Wien Inside Style Type.

Václav Čekan Praha

"The Most Beautiful Shapes!" "Václav Čekan" "Large Factory of Fashionable Hats" "Smooth Hats Factory" "Václavské nám PRAGUE-Vodičkova ul" (1908)

Václav Čekan, Revnice, Date of birth: 1879, Place of birth: Prague, Date of death: 1956, Place of death: Řevnice

He was the owner of a hat factory in Prague, which was founded in 1846 by his grandfather Václav Čekan (1811–1895) and continued to be run by his father Václav (1839–1896). The Čekans had several shops in Prague, the first one was in Vodičkova Street and the second, the most famous, down on Wenceslas Square. Čekan's factory successfully exported hats abroad, and the export of top hats to the USA was significant.

https://www.amaterskedivadlo.cz/main.php/pic/www.twitter.com/index.php?data=osobnost&id=8057

Václav Čekan's daughter Anna Čekanová was a well known dancer and her husband Otakar Kukula Jr., studied agricultural and forestry engineering in Prague and then became an employee of his father-in-law, Václav Čekan, in the family business Klobouky Čekan. He later became the director of the entire company. Anna Kukulová is listed as a co-owner of fashion factories, together with her husband, father and brother. One of them was called "Koruna", which was located right in the Koruna Palace on Wenceslas Square. In the 1930s, they made foreign business trips, including to the USA in 1935.

https://www.facebook.com/janackovon...-výročí-úmrtí-anny-anky-čeka/380820451703373/

 

[bowlerman]

Stetson Custom V
Picked this up locally a few months ago, and just now getting to cleaning it up and running a stitch through the front third of the sweatband.
A little dry rot at the edge of the sweatband, but otherwise cleaned up real nice!

 

[bowlerman]

Also meant to post this Stetson G** club brown heathered porkpie earlier

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Stetson Custom V

I like how you have shaped the Custom V. It definitely looks like a hat of it’s day.

 

[Pellie]

The only reason i bought this hat was because there was "Optimo" printed on it haha. I know it's not THE Optimo hats from Chicago and also not sure if it's Optimo hatworks from Bisbee Arizona, but the price was low, so why not. Now i own an Optimo lol. It's a decent panama hat from Ecuador, in NOS condition, so i'm not complaining

 

[bowlerman]

I like how you have shaped the Custom V. It definitely looks like a hat of it’s day.

Thanks. The felt definitely had a bit of memory when I creased it, even after steaming. It must have originally been pretty close to this.

 

[The Shoe]

Václav Čekan Praha, 58 cm, Crown Height 14 cm, Brim Length 31 cm, Brim Width 25 cm, possibly late 1920s. Václav Čekan Praha goes back to Austria Hungary and there might be a connection with P. & C. Habig Wien Berlin. I was made aware of this New Old Stock Silk Top Hat from a seller I know in the Czech Republic.

Center Rear.

Center Front.

Left Center Back to Front.

Right Center Back to Front.

Liner Stitching.

Side View of Hat Box with Václav Čekan Praha Silk Top Hat.

Side View of Hat Box.

Top View of Hat Box.

Inside of Hat Box Lid.

Inside of Hat Box.

The Inside Style Type and Location (Center Rear, Center Front, Right Center Back to Front, Left Center Back to Front) are similar to P. & C. Habig Wien Berlin.

P. & C. Habig Wien Inside Style Type.

Václav Čekan Praha

"The Most Beautiful Shapes!" "Václav Čekan" "Large Factory of Fashionable Hats" "Smooth Hats Factory" "Václavské nám PRAGUE-Vodičkova ul" (1908)

Václav Čekan, Revnice, Date of birth: 1879, Place of birth: Prague, Date of death: 1956, Place of death: Řevnice

He was the owner of a hat factory in Prague, which was founded in 1846 by his grandfather Václav Čekan (1811–1895) and continued to be run by his father Václav (1839–1896). The Čekans had several shops in Prague, the first one was in Vodičkova Street and the second, the most famous, down on Wenceslas Square. Čekan's factory successfully exported hats abroad, and the export of top hats to the USA was significant.

https://www.amaterskedivadlo.cz/main.php/pic/www.twitter.com/index.php?data=osobnost&id=8057

Václav Čekan's daughter Anna Čekanová was a well known dancer and her husband Otakar Kukula Jr., studied agricultural and forestry engineering in Prague and then became an employee of his father-in-law, Václav Čekan, in the family business Klobouky Čekan. He later became the director of the entire company. Anna Kukulová is listed as a co-owner of fashion factories, together with her husband, father and brother. One of them was called "Koruna", which was located right in the Koruna Palace on Wenceslas Square. In the 1930s, they made foreign business trips, including to the USA in 1935.

https://www.facebook.com/janackovonabrezi/posts/té-jež-se-odmlčela-na-dnešek-připadá-padesáté-deváté-výročí-úmrtí-anny-anky-čeka/380820451703373/

That is beautiful! I would wager that @Steve1857 is salivating over this one!

 

[dh66]

Unfortunately, this one had been crammed into b a shipping box much too small for it. I straightened it best I could for the photo, but it's going to take some serious rehabbing.

 

[mayserwegener]

That is beautiful! I would wager that @Steve1857 is salivating over this one!

Gary, Thank you! Steve gave much appreciation (Steve, Thanks again!) on the Topper thread.

 

[jeffgarf]

Back in 2016, @steur posted on the Italian Hatmakers thread about an Italian hatmaker work the unlikely name, Anderson. Today, having received a package, interestingly enough, from the Netherlands, that I ordered one month ago to Israel, I am now the proud owner of an Anderson. Soft felt, similar to Borsalino and fairly well constructed, it seems to be a fairly modern hat (80's to present). This is a Lapin Rasato (shaved rabbit) hat sold in Milan at Melegari Hat Store.

 

[Frunobulax]

Back in 2016, @steur posted on the Italian Hatmakers thread about an Italian hatmaker work the unlikely name, Anderson. Today, having received a package, interestingly enough, from the Netherlands, that I ordered one month ago to Israel, I am now the proud owner of an Anderson. Soft felt, similar to Borsalino and fairly well constructed, it seems to be a fairly modern hat (80's to present). This is a Lapin Rasato (shaved rabbit) hat sold in Milan at Melegari Hat Store.

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Rabbit? Shave?