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  1. alanfgag

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

    Enjoying a little warm up and this old hat - a gift from a FL buddy.
  2. alanfgag

    Turquoise/Native American jewelry

    Some antique and ancient trade beads in the low December sunshine.
  3. alanfgag

    Dating Vintage Stetsons by Liner: A Field Guide

    I think your guess is good… late 1950s to 1960 would be my guess.
  4. alanfgag

    Show us their hats!

    It is indeed. My Dad lived in Elmhurst at the time and then in Jackson Heights when I was growing up.
  5. alanfgag

    Berets, Anyone?

    beret on the beach.
  6. alanfgag

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

    Misto flat top on the beach.
  7. alanfgag

    Show us their hats!

    Spent some time with old snapshots this past week... here are a couple of my Dad, 1944 and shortly thereafter.
  8. alanfgag

    The Stratoliner Society {VINTAGE}

    Fantastic hat and great story all around.
  9. alanfgag

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

    Thank you Steve… hope all is well with you.
  10. alanfgag

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

    A quiet beach walk with our younger daughter on Thanksgiving. I find I travel almost exclusively with berets these days.
  11. alanfgag

    Turquoise/Native American jewelry

    The Navajo Arts and Crafts Guild members produced some wonderful pins and brooches. I have several and keep them pinned on my wooly jackets and vests. Here is one with an unusual and beautiful abstract rendering of a horse in motion.
  12. alanfgag

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

    The pictures describe beautifully... thanks for sharing them.
  13. alanfgag

    Western, anyone?

    I guess I still have one or two up my sleeve... though it has been posted before I think. It is a dark sand... the color you'll get from a building supply place rather than the ocean sand I grew up with outside NYC.
  14. alanfgag

    Western, anyone?

  15. alanfgag

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

    A No.1 Quality western sold from the Stetson factory store in Philadelphia... late 1930s.
  16. alanfgag

    Turquoise/Native American jewelry

    Here is a sampling from my collection of cuffs from the Navajo Arts and Crafts Guild. The NACG, founded in 1941 under the auspices of the US government Indian Arts and Crafts Board with support from Navajo tribal authority the NACG helped support a return to traditional values in Navajo...
  17. alanfgag

    Turquoise/Native American jewelry

    Thank you. It’s marked with the horned sun of the Navajo Arts and Crafts Guild… posted some additional photos of it further back. Very elegant form and beautifully crafted as well. Some of the NACG pieces are special.
  18. alanfgag

    Turquoise/Native American jewelry

    Mid-century Navajo modernism.
  19. alanfgag

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

    Thanks... I think one of these will be good for me. But it is an interesting example of American ingenuity from a time when some raw materials were likely difficult to source (kinda like now)... and when "plastic" had some positive marketing power - before it acquired the negative baggage that...
  20. alanfgag

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

    Yes... follow the link to see more photos and read more details. The hat is constructed with cloth hat techniques from an interesting mixture of materials. In my experience, examples of this short lived WWII era experiment do not come up for sale often. Also, in my searching (when I was...

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