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Don Williams Lid

Winston Carter

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From looking at old pics Don wore different bands over the years from yellow to gold. They all had yellow corn beads. He also wore 3 different colors of hat Silerbelly, Sand, and Pecan although they all had the same shape.

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From just what I remember black braid with gold acorns, & gold braid with gold acorns designated different Officers; yellow & tan with acorns were medical corpsman; orange with orange tassels were designated for company engineers; there are others but that's all I recall from memory.

Perhaps Williams or someone he is honoring in his ancestry served as medical corpsman.
 
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From looking at old pics Don wore different bands over the years from yellow to gold. They all had yellow corn beads. He also wore 3 different colors of hat Silerbelly, Sand, and Pecan although they all had the same shape.

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Serval law enforcement agencies use the same bands and acorns. The colors are often chosen just to match the hat; although, here in California there is an agency where the officers wear the same gold band/acorns as you have while the supervisors (regardless of rank) wear a different color.

Yours looks good and with age will look even better. Nice job on the hat.


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Winston Carter

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Serval law enforcement agencies use the same bands and acorns. The colors are often chosen just to match the hat; although, here in California there is an agency where the officers wear the same gold band/acorns as you have while the supervisors (regardless of rank) wear a different color.

Yours looks good and with age will look even better. Nice job on the hat.


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Need to get some oil from my hands in it. That does the trick on Silverbellys. It will look better with age.
 

Redshoes51

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I noticed the Acorn hatband Don wears is somewhere in between Gold and Dirty Yellow.:):) The Acorn band I bought from Miller Hats is Yellow. I might have to drag it through the mud first.:):)

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The band I bought from Miller.

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Hi there... make a pot of coffee... lay your gold cord in a pan and pour the coffee on it and let it set for a while... a day... over night... it comes out just right... ;)

~shoes~
 

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Winston Carter

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Been workin in my Resistol now 8 years. Even used it for target practice. RIP Don Love you.
 

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