Brad Bowers
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Oh wow, I can only imagine what it must have looked like brand new! Nice find!
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Yes it is, Delectans. Any idea when they made this model?Looks like a real beauty! Nice Guild Edge as well. Is it a Twenty?
I see a price tag, partially, the number 5, is that $5.00 original price tag? That is one very sharp looking hat. Here is my Dobbs 15X Open Road clone, an eBay victory. The original thin hat band was tattered and frayed and almost at the point of falling off, so I got the urge to make a new hat band, found some not too bad Grosgrain, and went the the pain and tears of making the band and bow application. This hat was shipped to me in a box far too small, I had to do some work getting the brim looking spiffy again, and found what steaming a hat can do. It is now my second favorite hat.
I found a small strip of newspaper that was in the sweatband of this hat, it is dated Thursday, March 14th, 1957. I am going to attempt taking a picture with my cell phone and add it to this post if it is readable. For some reason my digital camera is on the blink....
Thanks, I appreciate that, Delectans. Here you go:As you are no doubt aware, the Twenty was a price designation, and not a specific model. From what I have seen, it seems that the Dobbs Twenty was produced from sometime in the '40s through at least the early '60s.
Post a few interior shots when you can, and we should be able to refine the date estimate.