The " Irish " Royal Stetson Selby

[aslyfox]

Hello there

I recently purchased a Royal Stetson Selby manufactured on March 17 2022 ( St Patrick Day ).

NOS never worn included box red english/Spanish pamphlet inventory card

Has mismatched Dobbs pin

Male pheasant chest feather with a trace of green

(I have Irish heritage, so it my "Irish" Selby)

Second Stetson first bought ,'90a from their outlet store

 

[aslyfox]

I just found the old stetson I bought at the factory outlet store in 1990s

A I ( eek ) says:

Stetson Soft-Finish Fur-Felt Dress Fedora, size 7 ½, manufactured at Stetson's historic St. Joseph, Missouri factory.

Basis for This Identification

• Factory Tag Code (-10-917tf287990 7 1/2): The TF prefix in Stetson's internal SKU system stands for Town Felt (dress fur felt, rather than TW for Town Wool). The multi-digit sequence is a St. Joseph assembly-line lot tracking number, and 7 1/2 confirms the blocked head size.
• Interior Crest & Liner: The white satin crown tip features Stetson's 1990s-era gold and red crest logo tacked into the crown, paired with a black-and-gold woven size tag tucked into the rear sweatband bow.
• Soft Construction & Cloth Sweatband: The flexible, un-stiffened 2 ¼-inch raw-edge brim, 4 ¼-inch center-dent crown, narrow ⅝-inch black grosgrain ribbon, and fabric comfort sweatband (instead of stiff roan leather) identify it as a lightweight casual/travel fur-felt model—such as Stetson's Mercury, Dunbar, or Hanover lines from that decade.
• St. Joseph Outlet Origin: Your purchase history at the St. Joseph, Missouri outlet in the early 1990s matches the exact years Stetson (Hatco / Stevens Hat Co.) operated its primary dress-hat plant and factory outlet store in that city, where overruns and un-stamped models were commonly sold with only their internal tracking tags.

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Note the authentic dust on hat from years of sitting on shelf crown down

Playing cards package photographed to provide scale