Dang....what a fantastic score....my size too
Thanks Jared! You reminded me how thrilled i was not only to find the hat but to find out it was also my size!
Looks in great shape. A real steal. Wear or in Good Health!Received my first Playboy yesterday, via the Bay. It's my "accidental" hat, as the bid I threw at it wasn't expected to survive. I was as surprised as anybody when I won it. The listing had it described as reddish brown. So far, under mostly incandescent or fluorescent light, it's appeared anywhere from greyish to greenish with a little brown. Now that I've got some direct sunlight, I still don't see the red. I dig these old colors, they seem to play in light so freely, giving a different take on the felt every time you look at it. OK, on to the pics!
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The innards...
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Guessing early to mid 50s based on the liner tip and logo on the sweat - with maple leaf. It's everything the previous posters have said - soft as butter, supple, light, easily shaped. It arrived crushed in a small box (no surprise there), but responded well to the steaming and I opened the crown with relative ease, though there were some ghost bashes that needed to be coaxed out from the previous crease. There are no tags under the sweat, just a keyhole size tag, so no re-order tags or anything like that. There is a small store price tag; however, it's so faded I can only read a couple of the numbers on it. It looks like the hat retailed for $7.50, maybe? Could be $12.50, too. Nothing on the sweat but the number 4 in magic marker and, like a previous poster mentioned, A714 is stamped on the liner.
Great hat. I'm thrilled to have it in my collection!