Stetson No. 1 Quality

[Frontporchcharlie]

Picked up this one the other day, I don't know anything about it other that it's a No. 1 Quality hat. Original price was $14.95.

 

[MikeinRome]

About 1941-42 Stetson Number 1 Quality Vita Felt hat, with 3 1/2 inch brim with underbinding and 6 1/4 inch open crown. It has the smaller No. 1 Quality emblem seen in later hats and this is a very early example of it. It's also an early example of a Vita Felt Western Stetson. Purchased from a Lounge member but never posted on FL by him. The Lot Number is on the side instead of the front and it's very faint. All I can tell for sure is the first number is 7 and maybe the second is 7, but I won't attempt to guess the entire number. I don't think it's possible that this hat is any later than 1942 at the max.
PS - My Gene Autrey Number 1 Quality hat, Lot Number 7686, has the older large Number 1 Quality emblem, and he signed it in August 1941.

 

[MikeinRome]

About 1940 Stetson Number 1 Quality with 3 1/2 inch brim as finished and 7 inch open crown. Lot Number 7618. Purchased from a Lounge member but never posted on FL by him. I started to say this was a late 30's hat, but since it's become apparent that the Stetson Lot Numbers seem to run up to about 1942, I've amended my date estimate.

 

[MikeinRome]

Stetson Number 1 Quality. Has 4 1/2 inch bound brim. The open crown measures 6 1/2 inches but the mfg tag says the Depth is 7 inches, so hat seems to have a lot of shrinkage. Looks like there's a Lot Number that's too faint to read. I guess this is a 1930's hat. I think the Block Number is 406 on mfg tag.

I sent this hat to be cleaned and stretched. I also had the crown reshaped to copy a crown that Jesse John did to a hat some months back, because I wanted something different from my other hat crowns. Thanks, Jesse!

 

[Bamaboots]

30’s No 1 Quality. 3 X 5 3/4.

 

[Blare]

30’s No 1 Quality. 3 X 5 3/4.
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Fantastic

 

[Hurricane Jack]

30’s No 1 Quality. 3 X 5 3/4.
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Flawless!

 

[Bamaboots]

Fantastic

Thank you.

 

[VoodooSan]

30’s No 1 Quality. 3 X 5 3/4.
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Stunning!!!

 

[Bamaboots]

Flawless!

Thanks, HJ. looking forward to the one you’ll soon be posting.

 

[carouselvic]

Stevenson in Manhattan is where I would go with my dad as a kid. He bought a lot of hats there. I still live there. I like to tell folks I like on the upper west side…

 

[MikeinRome]

Stevenson in Manhattan is where I would go with my dad as a kid. He bought a lot of hats there. I still live there. I like to tell folks I like on the upper west side…

Back around 1990, I had a serious girlfriend who lived at the corner of West 57th and 8th Avenue, where I'd sometimes stay.

 

[carouselvic]

Back around 1990, I had a serious girlfriend who lived at the corner of West 57th and 8th Avenue, where I'd sometimes stay.

I was just trying to be funny. This Manhattan and Salina are both Kansas towns.

 

[MikeinRome]

I was just trying to be funny. This Manhattan and Salina are both Kansas towns.

I wasn't paying attention enough to get the joke, watching TV news at the same time.

 

[MikeinRome]

Stetson Number 1 Quality with 3 1/4 inch brim and 5 1/2 inch open crown. The Lot Number looks like either 48X5 or 43X5 to me, and the fact that it has an inventory tag pre-dating the brown tags suggests it's before 1920.but it might date right around 1920 at the latest.
The hat was advertised as a U.S. Forest Service hat having no brand markings!! I assume that's because they were also selling a Forest Service field jacket and they must have gotten them both from the same source and made an assumption.

 

[VoodooSan]

Stetson Number 1 Quality with 3 1/4 inch brim and 5 1/2 inch open crown. The Lot Number looks like either 48X5 or 43X5 to me, and the fact that it has an inventory tag pre-dating the brown tags suggests it's before 1920.but it might date right around 1920 at the latest.
The hat was advertised as a U.S. Forest Service hat having no brand markings!!

Yowza!!! That's KILLER, Mike!