+1Outstanding! Causing me some serious envy.
+1Outstanding! Causing me some serious envy.
Great collection of hats, Jack!I like what has become known as the Old West style. My favorite crease is probably the Tom Horn. The brims I prefer usually fall in the range of 3-1/4" to 4" wide. I want my brims to be fairly flat with maybe just a bit of swoop in the front. I don't want much if any packer draw in the front or back, & not much fender roll on the sides.
Ritch Rand all natural beaver
Stetson
Kevin O'Farrell
Ritch Rand
These two Rand's are favorites & have as much fender roll as I ever want:
Ritch Rand
Ritch Rand
I also really like what I call the Old West gentleman's dress hat for special occasions. Most will have brims that are fairly flat with a small kettle curl:
Ritch Rand (charcoal)
Worth - Walden
Worth - Walden
Texas Hat Co.
Akubra Woomera
Ritch Rand
Akubra Woomera
Great topic for a post, Latigo!
Amazing collection Jack!
Now THAT collection deserves a bump!
What a wonderful selection of hats, thanks for showing them all together like that.
Stupendous collection!!!
Is that a Fairbanks postal scale behind the Kevin O'Farrell?
Outstanding! Causing me some serious envy.
Thank you guys for the kind comments...they are much appreciated. I do have a few more Stetsons, etc but these are among my favorites & demonstrate nicely the styles I was trying to point out.
Thanks Doc. There can be slight variations between the Tom Horn & the Gus, I think. Mainly in the rake & the pinches or dents. Obviously Tom Horn was a real person...if you go to Missouri, Colorado, Wyoming & Montana it will be called the Tom Horn. If you go to Texas & about anywhere else where Larry McMurtry or the Lonesome Dove miniseries are known they will only know it as the Gus. There are several creases & variations known as the Montana, I think.Great collection of hats, Jack!
Would you say that the Tom Horn, Gus and Montana are all the same crease or is there some variation I'm not appreciating?
Thank you guys for the kind comments...they are much appreciated. I do have a few more Stetsons, etc but these are among my favorites & demonstrate nicely the styles I was trying to point out.
Charlie, the scales are antique pharmaceutical scales made by OHAUS, The Western Machinery Co., Wichita, KS. Are you a scales collector?
I saw what you did there ! LOLI already have enough problems, Jack, so no, I don't collect scales. I grew up in St. Johnsbury, VT, where the Fairbanks platform scale was invented circa 1830 . . .
Just weighing in on the matter, here...
Come on Michael, get those closet queens out & post some pics!
Amazing collection Jack!
I concur -- Michael R. needs to post up some hats!
I'm with you.I like what has become known as the Old West style. My favorite crease is probably the Tom Horn. The brims I prefer usually fall in the range of 3-1/4" to 4" wide. I want my brims to be fairly flat with maybe just a bit of swoop in the front. I don't want much if any packer draw in the front or back, & not much fender roll on the sides.
I don't mean to be nit picky but think you meant Montana crease, not peak. Unless I'm confused this is a Montana Peak:@Hurricane Jack That's quite the collection you have! I'm also pleased that you called it like it should be.... it's a "Tom Horn" or "Montana Peak" not a "Gus"....
Just one of those nit picky kind of things.....but....
They're all nice but my favorite is the O'Farrell... I really like the color!
Latigo
Thanks Latigo. It's natural beaver.They're all nice but my favorite is the O'Farrell... I really like the color!
Latigo, it's hard to describe a 3 dimensional concept using only a 2 dimensional picture but I'll do my best.The one I'm not sure of is "packer draw" I don't know what you mean by it.. can you explain? In your quote above you refer to "a bit of swoop" and "packer draw".
That's the key I was trying to make earlier in the thread. In the areas where Tom Horn roamed it is more likely to be called either the Tom Horn or the Montana crease (regardless of slight variations) than it is to be called the Gus....the other is called a Montana Crease , among other things depending where you are .
I'll look forward to seeing them.I'll post up one of my riding hats that I think has both swoop and draw and see what you think..
I'll look forward to seeing them.
So much sunshine this morning I'm wearing my Sand colored Woomera until it gets hot.