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

Rodkins

Call Me a Cab
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Orlando
FANTASTIC WESTLITE!

-uh, lemme know if things don't work out with you two. That is Sweeeeet!

Thanks Rick. I am having fun with it now. I actually won another open road (a newer Stetson) but I haven't received it yet. I didn't count on winning both but I'll see what I end up with. The Knox Westlite has a $16.50 price sticker inside the sweat band and came with the original box. I'm trying to search the FL site to get an approximate date. The box has the owners name on the bottom on a delivery tag to a hotel in Texas and it matches the intitials on the sweat band. Kinda cool...
 
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15,276
Location
Somewhere south of crazy
Thanks Rick. I am having fun with it now. I actually won another open road (a newer Stetson) but I haven't received it yet. I didn't count on winning both but I'll see what I end up with. The Knox Westlite has a $16.95 or $17.95 price sticker inside the sweat band and came with the original box. I'm trying to search the FL site to get an approximate date. The box has the owners name on the bottom on a delivery tag to a hotel in Texas and it matches the intitials on the sweat band. Kinda cool...

Nice OR clone Rodkins, let's see some pics when you get it (them).
 

Rick Blaine

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3,958
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Saskatoon, SK CANADA
Thanks Rick. I am having fun with it now. I actually won another open road (a newer Stetson) but I haven't received it yet. I didn't count on winning both but I'll see what I end up with. The Knox Westlite has a $16.50 price sticker inside the sweat band and came with the original box. I'm trying to search the FL site to get an approximate date. The box has the owners name on the bottom on a delivery tag to a hotel in Texas and it matches the intitials on the sweat band. Kinda cool...

I know what you mean. I have been jonesin' bad for a Stetson OR from the Morris Menswear store in the lobby of the Chicago Union Stockyard Inn. That's where, from 1865 on, having sold their herd the Texas cattle Tycoons flush w/ $$$, would get themselves new togs, hat included.
 
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Mobile Vulgus

One Too Many
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1,144
Location
Chicago
Well, I just got a Stetson from an ebayer named "joshbru3firebird." Is that one you you fellers?

Vintage 1920s 30s STETSON fur felt hat FEDORA SIZE 7

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Joshbru3

I'll Lock Up
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4,409
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Chicago, IL

Mobile Vulgus

One Too Many
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1,144
Location
Chicago
Nice Lid Vulgus
Good price to
:D

I agree. Ordinarily, I would not have bid on it because the brim is way too small for me. But I am warming to Stetsons, for one thing, and that makes the oldest hat in my collection, so the age appealed to me, too. Now if I can figure a way to make sure that sweatband doesn't rip anymore than it has.
 

danofarlington

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3,122
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Arlington, Virginia
Just got this Resistol Open-Road wanna be, $10. Has a bit of moth damage, but I think I can work around it with the HarpPlayerGene method (oh, what would I do without the fedora lounge?).

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...EYOWn0k%3D&viewitem=&sspagename=STRK:MEWNX:IT

Gonna take the Cattlemen's crease out, probably gonna switch to a diamond crease, or maybe just center dent...

Looks good, and you can't beat the price. I bought a modern Stetson Open Road with a cattleman's crease, which I knew I didn't want. Had it re-shaped to a "center dent with pinches," and can now wear it a lot. Just took it off from having it on most of the day today.
 

Jabos

A-List Customer
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441
Location
Oklahoma
Man, I thought that 7 1/2 stratoliner would go for a lot more than $202. Not my size but heck I should have bid anyway for that. I bet a 7 3/8 will come along for me and go for $500, with my luck.

I suspect some sort of fedora lounge underground gentlemen's agreement in place.
 

derby

New in Town
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14
Location
Small Town Indiana
JERK ALERT! Picture from the back means two BIG moth tracks on the front one on the crown right above the ribbon and one below the ribbon.Big enough to bend a rim on a tire.PLUS I asked about something I seen on the sweatband maybe a tear NO TEAR but the stitching was coming out.But got my money back then he emails me. SEND (MY F---ING HAT BACK FAST) Well it has been there since Nov.3 You just do not do things that way! So you might watch out and THANKS FOR LETTING ME VENT
 

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