ScottF
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Just got the above hat cleaned up. The 4X felt is really nice - reminds me of higher-end Resistol and Dobbs westerns from the '50s. The brim felt is 'western stiff', but the crown can be bashed into anything you want. I like it a lot more than the 7X's I've had. You can bend the brim all you want and it doesn't wrinkle like the '60s Stetsons (of all qualities). The sweatband is superb quality also. Everything about this says mid-50's, but if I remember correctly, the full-size on the size-tag puts it in the 58-61 range. Do we have a thread on Stetson size-tag dating?
Alan, thanks for posting the following image and the 1956 sales receipt. As mentioned above, not sure when they went from your size tag to the one on my hat.
one with sales ticket: