http://www.ebay.com/itm/ROYAL-STETS...771?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item566ce8f0c3
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-50s...927?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item566c0b08c7
There was another grey earlier last year that went $405 and a greenish grey also over $400 the completed listing seems to be gone, all no Strat box
I think if you want to pay less than $270 your looking at getting a very rough one like;
http://www.ebay.com/itm/231436811404?_trksid=p2060778.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT
which may go higher as well, it is a vita-felt, has the box and the insert
Strats are taking over from Whippets IMO.
Great Resistol goes for modest amount:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/141522758305
According to the seller in response to a question: " ... I did measure the inside of the band. From front to back is aprox 8" and from side to side is aprox 6.5".
I think it might have been alanfgag who posted an approximatation formula for ascertaining hat size being the addition of the long & short diameters divided by two. So, if memory serves me correctly in that vein, we get 8 + 6.5 = 14.5 / 2 = 7.25 or size 7-1/4 which is > than 7-1/8.
QED by viclip the brilliant mathematician (in my own mind)
I read today in a 1905 work respecting handling of hats, that the above formula actually generates the UK size. To attain the US size the result must be bumped up by 1/8.
Thus the previously calculated result of 7-3/8 is the UK size of the hat; the US size is 7-1/2 with the addition of the 1/8 size increment.
Needless to say the best thing is to prevail upon an eBay seller of an unsized hat, to carefully measure the inside circumference of the sweat band using a flexible cloth tape. Recourse to accurate hat sizing tables can then be resorted to.
Not all eBay sellers are hat experts.