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

[thunderw21]

This is the ebay photo for this Borsalino.
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Need more photos. You cannot get away with posting only two of that hat.

 

[Lefty]

a few that ended tonight

Fantastic 7 1/4 Mallory homburg (click the link for photos)

size 7 Cavanagh panama

mothy Mallory OR clone

 

[Tango On]

re the Cavanagh panama posted by Lefty

Hello All
This is my first post and I want to say damm you guys I have never been a hat guy. Wore a cover in the Corps back in the 60's because I had too. Bought an Akruba Cattleman back in the 70's in my "goat roping" days and wore it on safari and elk hunts. Recently I decided I should have a panama as I am getting old and have had a few basil meso's (non-malignant) from that cigar,mojito, sun bake thing so I read a few sites starting with the first one I found-BBB. Got hooked. Found this site, got the hook in deeper. Now, I HAVE TO HAVE A HAT! So, in the last week I been looking for vintage hats and acquired a mint Knox and mint Cavanagh fedoras-looks like 60's (from what I have learned here-thank you) and bid on that Cav panama. I hope it is a 7 as stated because I asked the seller to measure and she said 21.5 two sizes smaller than a 7. But what the heck. I tried measuring the inside of my Akruba and came up with different numbers each time so I hope seller had the same problem and it is a 7. Anyway too long a post but I do need to blame someone. My wife is starting to worry but I also learned here-never tell them how much you spent. Thank you all for the great info.

 

[J.T.Marcus]

a few that ended tonight


mothy Mallory OR clone

I got that one. It was listed as a Knox. I was doubtful, till I enlarged the liner pic. I'll have to size it, but it has promise.

 

[Lefty]

Sorry about the mis-post JT. If you can fix the nibs, that will be a heck of a hat, especially for under $10.

Tango On - that Cav is great. At a size 7, you'll be cleaning up on the best hats for the lowest prices. Keep an eye on the classifieds section. Garrett is always posting tiny hats, and you won't have to worry about undisclosed issues. Welcome to the Lounge.

 

[kiltie]

I won this, and...

...I just wanna say -

+

 

[Brad Bowers]

 

[kiltie]

That's right, I'm cutting the fingers off the gloves :rage: .

 

[Lefty]

Either way it went, the price of this Playboy was going to make me wonder. If the price was low, I'd wonder how all of these playboys seem to be going for peanuts, especially considering the larges sizes that are selling. They're normally pretty hard to come by, and they're very nice hats. If the price was high, I'd wonder why the other playboys went for so little and this one warranted a high price, especially being that it's probably the latest model I've seen.

In the end, it went for $86 - about $70 less than I would expect.

 

[Jabos]

I would have thought more on the Playboy, so I didn't even watch the bidding. I might have been tempted at that price. [huh] But, could it be the two inch brim that kept it lower-a bit stingyish? Or are all Playboy's with a two inch brim? I don't know that much about them yet.

 

[Lefty]

Playboys, like a lot of other vintage Stetsons, seem to be stylistically all over the place.

 

[Tango Yankee]

^^It was the two inch brim that kept me from bidding on it. I have a hard time pulling off wearing two inch brims or narrower.

 

[gtdean48]

^^It was the two inch brim that kept me from bidding on it. I have a hard time pulling off wearing two inch brims or narrower.

:arated: I don't even watch them if they are not a 2 1/2" brim or wider...

 

[jec]

^^It was the two inch brim that kept me from bidding on it. I have a hard time pulling off wearing two inch brims or narrower.

ditto

 

[rlk]

Borselino Alessandria

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...E:B:EOIBSA:US:1123&viewitem=&salenotsupported

 

[Bob Smalser]

Borsalino Alessandria

I bid and lost. There were only two bidders. It looks to be a Size 7 1/4, too.

One more seller playing Hide the Hat. This one was listed under Ladies Hats 1947-64.

 

[ScottF]

I bid and lost. There were only two bidders. It looks to be a Size 7 1/4, too.

One more seller playing Hide the Hat. This one was listed under Ladies Hats 1947-64.

Very nice hat, but at 22", you can take solace in hoping it would have been too small. Greetings to another Washingtonian.

 

[Lefty]

As with the Playboys, the recent prices of AA issues are all over the place. After a couple sold for under $100, this happened.
$282

$142

$188

$187

 

[Jabos]

^^It was the two inch brim that kept me from bidding on it. I have a hard time pulling off wearing two inch brims or narrower.

I've noticed that you must be my size-bad news for me. I'll have to bring some "big guns" to an Ebay duel with you or I'm probably gonna go down. But, what else would one expect from someone with as many ribbons on their uniform as you (I've noticed the pic on the wall in the background-very impressive).

 

[Garrett]

As with the Playboys, the recent prices of AA issues are all over the place. After a couple sold for under $100, this happened.
$282

$142

$188

$187

Those prices are ridiculous