And on our way home yesterday from Fathers Day activities......We find these from out in the wild......
a circa 1940, Knox "Tom & Jerry" gift box:
And this Massive proportioned American Market Borsalino circa 1950....
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More on the Borsa here...
Found on the way home from Fathers Day activities........Was I surprised!!!!
An Made for America Import with grand dimensions: Just under 2 3/4 inch brim and a bit more than a 5 3/4 open crown!!!! AND...a sweet "Cavanagh Edge" Brim!! It has a 1 3/4" ribbon and a full 2" stippled/textured...
Ok...Ok.....here is mine.....
Backstory: Ten years ago a Lions of Illinois District 1-K leadership member decided we (the Governor Team) NEEDED to each have one of these for a convention. Somewhere in the ether of the internet are photographs of us wearing them around that whole...
Circa 1880.......get your groceries and buy a hat too! Reminds me of the places in Wisconsin where you can buy a shotgun and /or a rifle, ammunition, whiskey & beer, AND a loaf of bread and a gallon of milk.
Getting rid of a 100 hats.....to make room........you sound like my wife!:eek::oops::rolleyes:
Actually she only occasionally comments on the hats and hat boxes.......truth be told...she COULD be right!;)
And a BUMP with a Brooks Brothers Hat!;)
I have found this over the past weekend. A mid-50's Books Brothers under their private label. I have another imported by them, a heathered Tyrolean "Twenty" from Austria also mid 50's.
I will get it posted here. I think I may have another. But this...
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