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ScottF said:Backbow=late '50s. Also, that size tag is more modern than some of the Knox Twenty's we've posted in the 'School of Hard Knox' thread, and there's at least one (with older tag than yours) that's 1950-53. Finally, that liner cover is so smooth you can barely see it - looks like the later plastic liner covers.
I have a Knox 'Custom Edge' that I was guessing is late '50s, early '60s, and yours looks older, so I bet it's just newer than mid-50s.
I'm not sure that's an accurate assumption.
I know for a fact that Adam introduced backbows somewhere prior to 53 (I've details of one with OPS tag that's a couple of years pre-Miller Miller Bros era). Adam were not normally at the forefront of hat fashion, so I can only surmise that others introduced this first. That was all it was based on though so could be wrong, it has been known!