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Ah, but look at the first and third pictures:I love the first picture, there's going to be a right royal domestic when he finds that she has run over his clubs.
And he got another Best Friend!Ah, but look at the first and third pictures:
Surely it's the same couple, a little older, a little wiser, and the man realized a lifetime spent with the lady was surely worth far more than a set of golf clubs which could easily be replaced.
Don't let on, but MG is actually an acronym for My Girlfriend.And he got another Best Friend!
And nearly color matched to the car's new paint job.And he got another Best Friend!
Nice that you have the communication with Mr. Brown to keep with the hat.I didn't see a "Hats Featuring Artwork" thread so I'll post this here.
I'm pretty excited to have won a Goodwill auction for this "hat featuring artwork" from several well known cowboy and western artists of the last half-century. From what I've been able to research this was from the first Charlie Russell Ride on the Circle Bar Ranch in Montana where artists and art enthusiasts gathered for a week-long ride following the path that Charles M. Russell took through the Little Belt Mountains.
One of the two surviving artists, Harley Brown stated in a reply to my query:
"I’ll say that the Russell Ride was a good group of individuals along with a few Western artists getting together for close to a week and once a year. We rode horses and talked about life. A very uplifting time. We loved many of the the traditions of the old West. —— I see the hat does have those sketches we artists often did for members; it’s a treasure as you know. You have made a great buy with that hat. Plus it is in many ways historic.
The gathering was a good number of individuals who wanted to get together in Montana, relax, eat great meals and talk about the world."
Artists represented on this hat are:
Harley Brown (b 1939)
Michael Coleman (b 1946)
John Hampton (1918-1999)
Joe Ferrara (1932 - 2004)
Joe Abbrescia (1936 - 2005)
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https://www.harleybrown.ca/
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https://www.colemanart.com/michael-coleman
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https://cowboyartistsofamerica.com/active-members/deceased/john-hampton
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https://www.nevadafineart.com/sold/joe-ferrara
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https://abbresciaart.com/
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Not sure who "Murphy" was or how this hat ended up at Goodwill.
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