Hat size is generally 7 3/8s. Spent 28 years as a cop in the UK so you can guess what styles of hat were my most commonly worn. Incidentally a piece of trivia for you, the head size of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the second is 6 3/8s. Battersby's made the lining for the crown!
Now available to pre-order from the publisher, for release in mid-December - just in time to solve your Christmas present dilemmas....I hope.
https://www.amberley-books.com/battersby-hats-of-stockport.html
I suspect there are some here who might like to see this - a hat labelled as 'Baden Powell', photo taken by my great uncle Edgar Battersby at the family factory in Stockport about 1907. The picture is from the original glass negative which I own. Sorry but the hat itself is long gone!
Just to add - Battersbys kept the label and no doubt used it on hats from their own factory depending on customer demand. Their London warehouse was in Nicholl Square and as your pictures show it was destroyed in world war 2.
Luck and Sons were bought by Battersby's well before 1900 because one of the travellers they took on from Luck's was a man called Tom Reed, father of Austin Reed, and Battersby's actually gave Austin Reed financial help to set up his business in 1900 (which went into receivership the other day...
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