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Ebay Hats: Victories, Defeats, Gripes & Items of Interest

Hagwood

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I was going to offer almost the same opinion as Brent until I scrolled and saw it would be redundant.
The leather looks great. The pin on the bow is interesting. It might help you narrow the age down.

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Thanks, that hat pin does look very familiar to me, but I just can't place it. Any ideas ?

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Hagwood

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So I did a really good cleaning on it last night and misted it with distilled water and steam to take it back to an open crown, and straightened out the brim. Thanks to some great advice on the forum. It had some funky creases in it that wouldn't come out, and it seems to have done the trick after seeing it this morning after drying. it definitely stiffened it up. Tonight I will try a bash in it and see what I can come up with, and hope the brim still snaps down in front.

I can see this is going to be very addicting. It's similar to my other hobbies of finding and restoring vintage Music Boxes, Coleman Lanterns, and Fountain Pens. I like finding ones that need a little TLC. There is something very special about taking something from 70 - 80 years ago that has been well used, and maybe even a little abused, and bringing it back to it's former grandeur of a bygone era.

Here's a few pics after my cleaning and re-shaping last night. It was still wet in the photos, but looked great this morning:

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Hat and Rehat

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So I did a really good cleaning on it last night and misted it with distilled water and steam to take it back to an open crown, and straightened out the brim. Thanks to some great advice on the forum. It had some funky creases in it that wouldn't come out, and it seems to have done the trick after seeing it this morning after drying. it definitely stiffened it up. Tonight I will try a bash in it and see what I can come up with, and hope the brim still snaps down in front.

I can see this is going to be very addicting. It's similar to my other hobbies of finding and restoring vintage Music Boxes, Coleman Lanterns, and Fountain Pens. I like finding ones that need a little TLC. There is something very special about taking something from 70 - 80 years ago that has been well used, and maybe even a little abused, and bringing it back to it's former grandeur of a bygone era.

Here's a few pics after my cleaning and re-shaping last night. It was still wet in the photos, but looked great this morning:

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It looks like you got the flange restored nicely. The snap ought not be a problem.

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Bill Hughes

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Nice job! It didn't take long at all to get the technique down, did it?

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It took about 10 minutes to get the technique down. Then I wet the brim and went around it twice to get the what I show in the picture. Of course I did it on straw so, felt could be a bit different.
 

Hat and Rehat

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It took about 10 minutes to get the technique down. Then I wet the brim and went around it twice to get the what I show in the picture. Of course I did it on straw so, felt could be a bit different.
I think any of us who actually look at hats closely, rather than look at the hat/wearer combo, could learn it very quickly.
That's nice, because a lot of other things we want to do turn out a lot more difficult than we first expected, and we eat some mistakes.

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