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cleaning vintage hats
. Art - is it OK to spray the denatured alcohol onto the liner while it's still in the hat? Your website is indeed beautiful - though sorely lacking in size 7! I hope to get up to your shop some time later this year, as I do a fair amount of traveling around CA. -
cleaning vintage hats
cleaning thanks to everyone for the advice. I am on my way out to buy the alcohol... (for the hat) Art, should this not work, AndyKev had already directed me toward you for sweatband replacement. Hopefully this works, though - it's been painful looking at the hat for last couple of... -
D.O.A.
. ah...I figured he had to be in some other things, but I couldn't recall. I saw 'The Wild Bunch' in a theater five or so years ago...I recall I took a date to it. the girl was the very gentle, shy girl who was very artsy and intellectual. Then I take her to this shoot-'em-up! I guess I...- havershaw
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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D.O.A.
DOA DVD no problem: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6305770328/qid=1072222181/sr=1-7/ref=sr_1_7/002-3265653-8832828?v=glance&s=dvd I didn't see a whole lot of the other versions on this on there, so maybe Amazon doesn't carry the crappy ones. The movie was made in 1950...- havershaw
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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D.O.A.
. Ren, Be cautious of which version you get. I guess the title is in public domain, so there are a lot of really cheap versions out there with transfers that look like the Zapruder film. I got the Image version - and it looks great (no extras, but it looks great).- havershaw
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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in praise of whippets.
Matt - Glad to see you won it - I tried to stay out of your way. That is a beautiful hat. I love the Whippets (I'm now the owner of four). -
Just won this hat
. I'll let you know when it arrives - if it fails to please me, you may do with it as you wish - or anyway, yeah, maybe we can make a deal. I actually just got a Stetson Whippet that looks exactly like it (though I changed the bash some - the crown was completely caved in when I received it)... -
D.O.A.
I just saw this last night...not tons of hats in it, but the hat which the main character wears is GREAT...nice tall crown, no taper, teardrop drown. Too bad he leaves it in a doctor's office. I just checked out my DVD of it again and did some freeze-framing...looks like it's a Royal...- havershaw
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cleaning vintage hats
. Optimo doesn't appear to want to clean it - they wouldn't even quote me a price on it! ah well. The smell is ONLY in the interior of the hat. The exterior (when given a good, hearty whiff) smells like old fur felt. no mildew. The interior is another story, though. Seems like the... -
Just won this hat
. josh... you need to rock eBay more often, then! there have been two or three hats this last week that are dead ringers for this one (I won two of them). They weren't all that expensive. I know you got yourself a nice hat earlier - I was looking at that one also - nice hat! but in... -
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cleaning vintage hats
You know, there must be something in the air this week...all these people buying vintage hats off eBay this week (I have bought thirteen and counting)! Anyway, a question concerning cleaning. I have a super nice tobacco-colored Cavanagh I just received. Trouble is, it smells more than a... -
My latest acquisition
. I'm a 7. I've been buying a few 7-1/8 in the hope that a little foam under the sweatband will make things right. none have arrived yet, so the jury's still out on whether or not it'll work. (I figure I'll give everyone here first crack at anything I'm not going to use.) I can wear a... -
My latest acquisition
stetson on eBay Matt, you can have it. I didn't realize that you were the one I was bidding against - guess I didn't look at the name of the previous high bidder. It's a size big for me anyway; I figured I could use foam - but since it's your size, it would probably have a better home with... -
My latest acquisition
. Matt, I have one of the very old ones, which had a wide, bound brim (until I took it off about a year ago and tried to put a dimensional cut on the brim - a decision which still brings a tear to my eye today). That one's sort of a dark sandy brown. My other two are newer ones, both... -
Stetson research
. Andykev, put me down for size 7 hats. I actually just bought a bunch of vintage hats which haven't arrived yet, and you never know what you're going to get, exactly, until you see them. In some cases, they were auctions for hat lots and I know that for either size or color, there are some... -
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My latest acquisition
. One of the vintage Stetsons I just received is a "Vita Felt" hat. It feels incredibly close to the only Optimo I've ever handled (Runquist's grey, on the QM). It doesn't feel anything like any of my other vintage Stetsons (I have three Whippets, which also all feel totally different)... -
Vintage Cavanagh booklet
. Thanks so much for posting those, MK. I forgot to mention that the Cavanagh box which contained the hat and these papers had a sales slip pasted to the top of the box, with the "method of payment" (they charged it) and all of that on it. The date of purchase is July 1, 1954. I'll have... -
Some Cavanagh Goodies
Business has been good of late, so I thought I'd play Santa (to myself) and pick up a few 'new' vintage hats. I wanted to share them with you fine folks. I got myself a grey Royal Stetson, which feels amazingly close to what I recall the Optimo felt like. Very thin, dense felt, floppy. the... -
Cervo hat on eBay
. Sorry Daryl. I wasn't really complaining...I still wear the thing, after all. A 6-7/8 I can handle. 6-3/4 is a little too snug. There are quite a few hats in your size on eBay right now - I actually passed a few up because I didn't want to get too many hats that might not be as... -
Cervo hat on eBay
. I normally wear a 7 - so I I can fit into 6 and 7/8 - not easy, though. I just got a Royal Stetson Vitafelt hat or something like that - it is the most wonderful felt I have ever...well, felt. I checked out Rundquist's Optimo on the Queen Mary and that's what this reminds me of. The only...
