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

[mattface]

Got the two fedoras I was waiting for - late 40s early-mid 50s age guess on each - more info over at Resistol Roundup and Cavanagh Club threads - happy as I can be. Amazing just how well made and beautiful hats were from this period!

Resistol -

Cavanagh -

Wow... :eeek:

 

[Neophyte]

Those are excellent catches, congratulations :eusa_clap!

 

[hatophile]

Super hats, Levallois and both look great on you!

 

[Lefty]

I'll just guess that this stetson is a woman's riding hat, even though it's got a man's size

great looking Mallory, 7 1/2, nearly free

early Cav, cloth sweat, also very cheap

even Whippet looking hats in dark green and 7 3/8 went pretty low today

Custom V, 7 1/4, doesn't crack a C-note

it's pretty Stratty, it's 7 3/8 and it's affordable

 

[Garrett]

What a crazy cav. Maybe Brad can tell us more about it

 

[alanfgag]

What a crazy cav. Maybe Brad can tell us more about it

Hoping it's bigger than the measured size... will share pictures.

 

[Brad Bowers]

I put in a smallish bid on it, came in second. It's late-'40s to late'-50s, but what intrigued me the most was that it's a casual hat, only with a Cavanagh Edge. It's not a model I've seen before.

Brad

 

[Tango Yankee]

Got the two fedoras I was waiting for - late 40s early-mid 50s age guess on each - more info over at Resistol Roundup and Cavanagh Club threads - happy as I can be. Amazing just how well made and beautiful hats were from this period!

Wonderful hats, Levallois! :eusa_clap But I have to ask: do you have a wife or significant other looking at the two hats in bafflement, saying something like "But... but... they're the same hat! Why do you need two of the same hat?"

Cheers,

Tom

 

[HatsEnough]

Ebay really makes you wonder what goes through people's heads, sometimes.

One seller has a Disney hat box (no hat, just the box) that he thinks he's going to get $149.98 for! Seriously. It's an empty cardboard box.

Then there is a second seller with the exact same style Disney box and he only expects $22.50. A little better but still high for an empty cardboard box that isn't in perfect shape.

But, seriously. What is going thru that first dude's brain thinking a cardboard box is worth more than anyone would likely pay for the hat that was in the thing!?

 

[randooch]

HE, you know the old saw: "A fool and his money are soon parted." The seller hopes to encounter just this person.

 

[Levallois]

Wonderful hats, Levallois! :eusa_clap But I have to ask: do you have a wife or significant other looking at the two hats in bafflement, saying something like "But... but... they're the same hat! Why do you need two of the same hat?"

Cheers,

Tom

Tom,

If she don't see them then they don't exist and they don't look alike.

John

 

[mflemming]

I call this a win:

A mint 7x Clear Beaver for a pretty reasonable price:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/130587475860?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

It arrived today. The size tag says 7 1/8 mid oval, the fit is absolutely perfect.

 

[randooch]

A mint 7x Clear Beaver for a pretty reasonable price:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/130587475860?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

It arrived today. The size tag says 7 1/8 mid oval, the fit is absolutely perfect.

Beautiful! Looks like you might be the first person to wear that one. Congrats!

 

[HatsEnough]

A mint 7x Clear Beaver for a pretty reasonable price:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/130587475860?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

It arrived today. The size tag says 7 1/8 mid oval, the fit is absolutely perfect.

Glad you got it. I watched that and would have bid on it myself if I didn't already have one. Looks like a good piece.

 

[mflemming]

There is no sign that it has ever been worn.

Is it just me or do prices on Ebay seem to be trending down? I paid about $230 for a mint Stetson 25 last year, so $165 for a 7xCB seems almost cheap by comparison. I unexpectedly got a mint 1960's Knox a couple of weeks ago

http://www.ebay.com/itm/380369023420?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649

when my lowball bid turned out to be the winner. The reason I bid on that one is that I think Knox was the brand my father wore, that box looks awfully familiar.

 

[HatsEnough]

Yes, in general prices have trended down. Still a piece here or there will go nuts, but over all I feel prices are a bit down. Maybe by 1/8 to 1/4 or so.

 

[ScottF]

This is kind of funny. Do we have board members who actually think a hat like this is 'Open Road' style? I mean, this is a moth-eaten cowboy hat - clearly not a NM Open Road.

Sorry, but by posting this, at worst I'm giving a warning to newbies who might be fooled by ebay listing description extravagance:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160667071349

 

[John Galt]

Maybe the newby comment refers to me. I assumed the seller was talking about the 1930's fedora style Open Road seen in the 1937 air light ads, rather than the LBJ creased Open Road.

This is kind of funny. Do we have board members who actually think a hat like this is 'Open Road' style? I mean, this is a moth-eaten cowboy hat - clearly not a NM Open Road.

Sorry, but by posting this, at worst I'm giving a warning to newbies who might be fooled by ebay listing description extravagance:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160667071349

 

[Walt]

Ebay really makes you wonder what goes through people's heads, sometimes.

One seller has a Disney hat box (no hat, just the box) that he thinks he's going to get $149.98 for! Seriously. It's an empty cardboard box.

Then there is a second seller with the exact same style Disney box and he only expects $22.50. A little better but still high for an empty cardboard box that isn't in perfect shape.

But, seriously. What is going thru that first dude's brain thinking a cardboard box is worth more than anyone would likely pay for the hat that was in the thing!?

Maybe the first seller paid $149.98 or at least half of that ($74.99) for the box! LOL.

The segment on ebay that thinks they have the Antiques Roadshow Find of the Century is both amusing and annoying.

One good one was the Pale Rider Stetson from the 1980's that was posted a month or two back (don't recall that being mentioned here--kind of a cool style western with a tall telescope crown as worn by Eastwood in the movie Pale Rider). The seller wanted, as I recall, some ridiculous amount like $4,500 for the hat. Now if it had actually been worn be Eastwood during the making of the movie that would have been realistic, but a replica hat--give me a break! A month later the same model, but in a size or two smaller sold on the bay for a few hundred or so (still pretty darn good for a somewhat rare movie tie-in limited edition hat).

Sometimes I'm tempted to email the sellers like that and ask them if they think there really are suckers out there or if they are desperate to make up for lost wages, underwater mortage and wiped out 401K/IRA account that they are such crazy dreamers....

Then there are the few sellers trying to sell beanie babies for several hundred thousand dollars (maybe the seller really paid that much for one during the height of that craze---LMAO)....

Somehow I don't think there are too many, if any, suckers going for outrageous prices.

 

[Walt]

This is kind of funny. Do we have board members who actually think a hat like this is 'Open Road' style? I mean, this is a moth-eaten cowboy hat - clearly not a NM Open Road.

Sorry, but by posting this, at worst I'm giving a warning to newbies who might be fooled by ebay listing description extravagance:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160667071349

Typical seller tactic of seeding as many search queries as possible with the most popular and most valuable search keywords... Like the sellers that call every hat a fedora to make sure everyone will see it.