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  1. The Hatted Professor

    The Dobbs Diner...

    The Cavanagh Edge was introduced in 1913. Only Crofut & Knapp used it for their hats, which included Dobbs, until after the patent ran out in 1930.
  2. The Hatted Professor

    The Dobbs Diner...

    Nice find!
  3. The Hatted Professor

    Dimensional brims

    You're absolutely correct, as that's the only way to get the proper curl so that the sides and the back end up with the same visual width. And I did deconstruct a Derby to discover this. It one that was heavily damaged.
  4. The Hatted Professor

    Stetson Pinnacle History?

    No clue on either question, but I know they were available in 2020 because that’s when I got mine.
  5. The Hatted Professor

    The School of Hard Knox

    The Knox Forty was offered as early as 1925 and was a clear beaver hat. This could easily be a 1930s or early 1940s hat. I feel the brim is too wide for 1920s, but that’s just a guess.
  7. The Hatted Professor

    The Dobbs Diner...

    Thanks for posting. My dating guide says these liner tips “perhaps showed up in the late-1940s,” so now we can say for certain they showed up mid-decade. That edge looks think and bulbous. Is there a Cavanagh Edge hiding under the binding?
  8. The Hatted Professor

    The Bowler or Derby Hat

    Not sure exactly what you’re looking for, but this is a reference: http://www.thehattedprofessor.com/derbydeconstruction.html
  9. The Hatted Professor

    The Late History of John B. Stetson Company, et al Suitors

    Just a point of clarification, as this thread is taking about two different things. First, there is the John B. Stetson Company, which never went out of business (they just stopped manufacturing their own hats) and still owns the Stetson name and other trademarks. They only license the...
  10. The Hatted Professor

    The Dobbs Diner...

    The obvious reasons are the reasons! Especially the color.
  11. The Hatted Professor

    The Dobbs Diner...

    Beautiful! That’s a holy grail of hats for sure!
  13. The Hatted Professor

    Dunlap Drive-In

    May 12, 1935. And yes, those are for tees!
  14. The Hatted Professor

    Dunlap Drive-In

    Very nice. It’s a women’s hat. The cloth sweatband, sized in inches as women’s hats were, the milliner’s code (as opposed to hatter’s code) tag, and the elastic chin string, are the dead-giveaways. But no one else besides you will ever know!
  15. The Hatted Professor

    The Hats Of President John F. Kennedy

    Nice collection, but several inaccuracies. All of the top hats are silk, not beaver. Beaver wasn’t used for hatter’s plush since the 1830s, though there may be few exceptions.. Also, the Cavanagh silk hat was the one JFK wore to his inauguration, not the Dobbs. It was made expressly for him for...
  16. The Hatted Professor

    The Cavanagh Club

    The Carter sweatbands seem to be used by Cavanagh mostly on homburgs, as I have quite a few from the same era with them. I think I only have one non-homburg with one.
  17. The Hatted Professor

    Women's Beaver Hat

    No worries. It's a mistake commonly seen on eBay, with silk hats being labeled by sellers as beaver, when beaver plush hadn't really been used since the 1830s., though nutria plush was used as a silk substitute in the WWI era.
  19. The Hatted Professor

    Women's Beaver Hat

    The manufacturers marketed it as a “silk sailor” hat, definitely silk rather than beaver.
  20. The Hatted Professor

    Ask a question, get an answer

    Y Yes, that's the price. Not the most expensive, as there are also Fifties and One-Hundreds, but not the cheapest, either.
  21. The Hatted Professor

    Ask a question, get an answer

    Just a '60s snap-brim fedora.
  22. The Hatted Professor

    Ask a question, get an answer

    I had the same problem with my straw Milan Stratoliner. I ordered 7 ⅜, and it's too big. Most of the felt Stetsons I got in 2020 and 2021 fit well, though.
  23. The Hatted Professor

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

    Well, crap. I was excited to buy this original pencil drawing, obviously the preliminary sketch for a famous advertisement from 1930, but I just got an email from the seller that they can't find it in their inventory. This would have been the next best thing to having the original painting...

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