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Navy Blue Early 50's 100% Beaver Stingy
- John Galt
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- Forum: Classifieds
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Navy Blue Early 50's 100% Beaver Stingy
Here's a nice find, which I updated today with a very nice vintage ribbon & bow, in "horizon" blue (steely). Asking Price: $225.00 Era: Early 1950's based on oilskin sweatband liner. Size: Marked 7 1/8, measures between 7-7 1/8 (56+ cm) with three different measuring compasses. Brim: 1 1/2"...- John Galt
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The Conversion Corral
New ribbon & bow on this navy blue early 1950's Beaver Brand (Langenberg) 100% beaver fur stingy brim. I didn't take before photos, but mocked them up with the old ribbon & bow. I like it a lot better now. I will be selling it though, to help pay off my recent purchase... Before: This... -
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Ask a question, get an answer
You can also go up a size on a flange and iron out the difference if you have to. I believe Ermatinger mentions this (in the context of buying as little materials as necessary) as a way to save $ when getting started blocking hats. -
What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?
Thx for the kind words TJ! It's your hat, wear it how you want! -
What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?
Justin, "You wear it well, a little old fashioned, but that's all right." Seriously, you are looking good - and kinda tough - in that hat. -
What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?
I was having a conversation about the original "Shantung" hats just a day or so ago in the ask a Q thread. Great to see one! -
TopHatters (San Leandro) - In Memoriam of Ted & Marie Lee
There are a lot of different shapes, and each shape is repeated for each size/oval. This batch has a lot of Lundstrom blocks & flanges. That's cool because it's an old SF company and one of my first hats was a Lundstrom. I imagine Ted & Marie bought these when Lundstrom closed down. -
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TopHatters (San Leandro) - In Memoriam of Ted & Marie Lee
Yes, they had a large stock of finished hats, but Peter is looking to sell them all as a lot. If anyone is interested, check out the TopHatters.Net site or PM me for his contact info. The hat you admired is actually my own sky blue Champ Featherweight. ;-) It was in the pic because I had... -
TopHatters (San Leandro) - In Memoriam of Ted & Marie Lee
Sorry, not at present. -
TopHatters (San Leandro) - In Memoriam of Ted & Marie Lee
I actually got all of this and more. I bought no finished hats (I couldn't afford them), but I did get anything and everything to do with _making_ hats (men's & women's). This included hand tools, stretchers, spinners, blocks, flanges, flange stands, flanging cloth, hat bodies, sweats, liners... -
TopHatters (San Leandro) - In Memoriam of Ted & Marie Lee
Here are a few photos of the San Leandro shop, as it was when I bought the hat making supplies: -
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Doubt it. It will probably fade, at least. -
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The Conversion Corral
Olė, I have sad irons (as you know) and I use an electric iron primarily for ribbon work, but for ironing flat, crown ironing, and frankly a lot of foot ironing, it's the (1940's, not early 20th century) Eureka electric cordless sad iron that I like the best. It's cordless, electric... -
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The Conversion Corral
To be fair, it started that way. Even rolled up, it was awe inspiring. The real artist here probably was paid a nickel :-( -
The Conversion Corral
Bond, I believe I have a 7 1/2 block in this shape, if you send me a body, I'd love to do one. PM me... -
The Conversion Corral
Thanks for all the comments guys! I'm blushing ;-) It was a vintage body - I've saved a couple over the years, but the others are old hats. This was still rolled up, and pretty small, but it worked at 7 1/8. It was sold by Tesoro originally - see the parabuntal (I think it's misspelled as...
