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

jimmy the lid

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I was amazed that the pair of Borsalinos didn't go any higher. I e-mailed the Seller, and the actual circumference measurements wound up being comparable to a 7 1/4 and a 7 3/8, respectively. I told this to the Seller, but I don't believe that the auction info was ever changed.

Cheers,
JtL
 

toobacat

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jimmy the lid said:
I was amazed that the pair of Borsalinos didn't go any higher. I e-mailed the Seller, and the actual circumference measurements wound up being comparable to a 7 1/4 and a 7 3/8, respectively. I told this to the Seller, but I don't believe that the auction info was ever changed.

Cheers,
JtL

I told her the same thing.
 

RPeers

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I too was watching both the whippet and the borsalinos but alas my $50 cap my wife has imposed was passed well I can always dream...
 
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I think your wife has the right approach to this, RPeers. I know for a fact that a hat that might sell for a couple hundred or more in one auction has a comparable number that will fetch less than that $50 limit in another. You get only good deals when you vow to get only good deals. You just need to be patient and always willing to walk away.
 

J.T.Marcus

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Stoney, Bradford and Stevens were short lived marques. It is my understanding (And I hope a better historian will either verify or correct) that for a while, Resistol became Bradford and Stetson became Stevens. The details didn't really register in my memory.

At any rate, I have one Bradford Double X. Most 2X's were wool, but this one is pretty good fur felt. It easilly blocked into a Federation look-alike. By the way, I was one of the other bidders on the one you got. Here's mine.

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Stoney

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Sorry to steal that one from you J.T. The way e-Bay disguises bidder names these days it's impossible to tell who you are bidding against. [huh]

Thanks for the info regarding Bradford and Stevens. I have three Stevens hats, one is an excellent lid, one of my favorite hats, the other two are OK but nothing special.
 

mingoslim

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J.T.Marcus said:
for a while, Resistol became Bradford and Stetson became Stevens. The details didn't really register in my memory.

Stevens was actually a fine brand in its own right . . . I had a Stevens from the 1940s which I have since passed on to a fellow lounger, and we both agree that it is one sweet hat . . .

What happened with Stetson is that when Stetson stopped manufacturing hats in the early 1970s and went into the "branding" game, Stevens took over the actual manufacture of Stetson hats . . .

I beleive that Bradford was a house brand manufactureed by (or taken over by) Resistol . . . but don't quote me on that one.
 

Stoney

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Dumb Luck is all it takes sometimes

I can't believe that I was able to get these hats at the prices that I did.


Royal Stetson for $18.51. it has Whippet like proportions. Looks like 1950s

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Brandon with un-reeded sweat in Blue looks like late 40s or early 50s for a mere $15.95 BIN. Ya gotta love some of these auctions.

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fletch31

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Nice Job scoring those. That brim flange looks like one of the wider ones that I have seen on the bay. Most I have seen will only flange a brim less than 2 5/8" in width with the majority being 2 1/2" or less. Thats a great price if it is as wide as it looks.
 

bolthead

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fletch31 said:
Nice Job scoring those. That brim flange looks like one of the wider ones that I have seen on the bay. Most I have seen will only flange a brim less than 2 5/8" in width with the majority being 2 1/2" or less. Thats a great price if it is as wide as it looks.
I did find it on ebay fletch.....I've been pretty patient. They've been catching some pretty high numbers on there for these. I indeed did luck out and s&h was only $12.00 as well. Heck, I've already paid that much s&h for a hat on ebay.

As far as the flange width goes, there's no #'s on it. The best I can measure though is just short of 3", like maybe 2 7/8. The bottom of the block's 3#'s are.... 5 3/4, 6 7/8, and 51. I grabbed it because of the 6 7/8 size.
 

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