Stetson Royal De Luxe

[DOUGLAS]

I was not sure if I was going to like this hat but it has grown on me

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[Hemingway Jones]

What's not to like? That is my dream hat! You have a might fine collection, My Good Man.

 

[jake_fink]

Another beauty. Are these all recent acquisitions, or have you beem collecting them for a while?

 

[thefedorastore]

One of the best hats I personally think Stetson ever made, and you have a very nice color as well!

 

[GentlemanFarmer]

Very, very nice. I'd like to find one of those myself one day.

I'm done acquiring for now after this week's purchase.

 

[DanielJones]

I swear you have a never ending supply of great looking hats & ties.:eusa_clap

Cheers!

Dan

 

[Cruiser]

Looks great with that suit, Douglas. I'd like to see a full shot of the fabulous tie in the second picture, too. Is it vintage too?

 

[DOUGLAS]

The recent acquisitions are the Dobbs Twenty, the Cavanagh, the Knox Premier, the Stetson Whippet and Marc's ABD. The others are older purchases. I also have just recieved a Dobbs Fifteen, two Borsalinos,a Hess a GH and four others that I have not shown yet. I have been collecting hats for my entire life. I just wish that I knew I was collecting when I was younger,I would have taken better care back then.

Cruiser that is an older tie. I will see if there is still a label on the back. I like the older ones best because they are not heavy.

I will take some photos this weekend.

 

[ledsled]

Nice!

That's a mighty good-looking hat. I was wondering if you could interpret some of the tag for me. Up top it says something like "silver belly deluxe", but down lower it says "light tan". I always thought silver belly was a color, but it seems to me that the color of your hat is more like the light tan.

Also, there's $15.95 near the light tan. I assume that is the original price for the hat, but perhaps it was an upgrade from silver belly to the light tan color?

You can be proud wearing that hat!

 

[DOUGLAS]

That is the reciept that came with the hat. I am a bit suspicous about it's authenticity. Some of it is writen in ink and some in pencil so I don't know for sure. Perhaps the light tan refers to the ribbon color? Also when I bought the hat the desciption said it was from 1934 and there is that number writen on the back of the size tag but again I don't know if I believe that. It does have the serial numbers so I suppose it could be dated that way.

 

[Jodatty]

From Hammer and Lewis here in San Jose CA, I've been there many times, a couple of locations still in business. Nice.