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

[drmaxtejeda]

Just won this Dobbs on eBay for $127.50.

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[drmaxtejeda]

Another Dobbs, I presume. It was found with the brown one, but this one didn't have a liner. The marking on the sweatband is the same as the brown one above, so I think it is also a Dobbs. This one went for $168.50.
Thanks for the ebay lessons, Bowen!

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[steur]

Just won this Dobbs on eBay for $127.50.

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Another Dobbs, I presume. It was found with the brown one, but this one didn't have a liner. The marking on the sweatband is the same is the brown one above, so I think it is also a Dobbs. This one went for $168.50.
Thanks for the ebay lessons, Bowen!

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I think I said it before, but you're unstoppable, Max. Couple that with a good eye and you end up with a house full of gorgeous hats like these. I thank the stars that you're not my size

 

[drmaxtejeda]

I think I said it before, but you're unstoppable, Max. Couple that with a good eye and you end up with a house full of gorgeous hats like these. I thank the stars that you're not my size

Thank you, Stefan! You saying I have a good eye is quite a compliment for a newbie like me.
It mades me not-so-quietly proud.

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[Just Daniel]

That's a sweet hat! Great work.

Another Dobbs, I presume. It was found with the brown one, but this one didn't have a liner. The marking on the sweatband is the same as the brown one above, so I think it is also a Dobbs. This one went for $168.50.
Thanks for the ebay lessons, Bowen!

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[drmaxtejeda]

My first Whippet. I am pretty sure I can whip it back into shape haha.
Bowen opined it "had good bones", so I went for it.

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[splintercellsz]

My first Whippet. I am pretty sure I can whip it back into shape haha.
Bowen opined it "had good bones", so I went for it.

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we need some headshots!!!

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[drmaxtejeda]

we need some headshots!!!

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I will post some when I pick it up near Chicago, when I am on my way home. I won't have steam to work on it, so it will be a little wonky.
I hoped that because it is mishapen it wouldn't go up as high as it did.

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[Redfokker]

Just won this Dobbs on eBay for $127.50.

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Another Dobbs, I presume. It was found with the brown one, but this one didn't have a liner. The marking on the sweatband is the same as the brown one above, so I think it is also a Dobbs. This one went for $168.50.
Thanks for the ebay lessons, Bowen!

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My first Whippet. I am pretty sure I can whip it back into shape haha.
Bowen opined it "had good bones", so I went for it.

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Some beautiful examples of high end collectable hats. That Whippet is the leader of the pack for sure. Did you pick up the Cavanagh Rat Pack Hat yet?

 

[hatophile]

Another Dobbs, I presume. It was found with the brown one, but this one didn't have a liner. The marking on the sweatband is the same as the brown one above, so I think it is also a Dobbs. This one went for $168.50.
Thanks for the ebay lessons, Bowen!

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My first Whippet. I am pretty sure I can whip it back into shape haha.
Bowen opined it "had good bones", so I went for it.

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Just won this Dobbs on eBay for $127.50.

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You hit the jackpot Max!

 

[drmaxtejeda]

Some beautiful examples of high end collectable hats. That Whippet is the leader of the pack for sure. Did you pick up the Cavanagh Rat Pack Hat yet?

Yep! I have it in the car. Had to rent a large one so all the boxes would fit. Now I will have to drive by my friend Ron's house to pick this and other hats before arriving to O'Hare next Monday.

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[hatsRme]

Yep! I have it in the car. Had to rent a large one so all the boxes would fit. Now I will have to drive by my friend Ron's house to pick this and other hats before arriving to O'Hare next Monday.

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Not to disagree, but the MacLachlan fedora is STILL the head-and-shoulder leader of your fedora hat hauls, Max.

 

[MondoFW]

Two ebay victories tonight! First one's a Mallory Ten. The color combination is something I've been seeking for quite some time. I'll let Willow Green's pics speak for themselves.

 

[MondoFW]

Second hat, 40's Resistol. Love the brim detailing!

 

[Tukwila]

Two ebay victories tonight! First one's a Mallory Ten. The color combination is something I've been seeking for quite some time. I'll let Willow Green's pics speak for themselves. View attachment 132974 View attachment 132972 View attachment 132978 View attachment 132977 View attachment 132979 View attachment 132976 View attachment 132975 View attachment 132973

Fantastic vintage lid! I absolutely love this one.

Second hat, 40's Resistol. Love the brim detailing! View attachment 132981 View attachment 132985 View attachment 132984 View attachment 132982 View attachment 132986 View attachment 132987

Very interesting the similarities in the brim bindings, especially, between these two hats. Another great score!

 

[AbbaDatDeHat]

Second hat, 40's Resistol. Love the brim detailing! View attachment 132981 View attachment 132985 View attachment 132984 View attachment 132982 View attachment 132986 View attachment 132987

Mondo: Stellar both!
Fyi: Willow-Green is our own 40Cal...King of the diamond dent!! You’ve done very well in your selection and will do well to keep an eye out for when he lets go of a few from time to time.
B

 

[Richard Morgan]

Second hat, 40's Resistol. Love the brim detailing! View attachment 132981 View attachment 132985 View attachment 132984 View attachment 132982 View attachment 132986 View attachment 132987

Both of those are treasures


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[steur]

Second hat, 40's Resistol. Love the brim detailing! View attachment 132981 View attachment 132985 View attachment 132984 View attachment 132982 View attachment 132986 View attachment 132987

Fantastic vintage lid! I absolutely love this one.


Very interesting the similarities in the brim bindings, especially, between these two hats. Another great score!

+1!

 

[splintercellsz]

show stopper

Second hat, 40's Resistol. Love the brim detailing! View attachment 132981 View attachment 132985 View attachment 132984 View attachment 132982 View attachment 132986 View attachment 132987

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[humanshoes]

'Yes' we are giving permission to re-use, and 'no' we are not giving permission to publish the information as if it is your own, without giving credit. I really don't care about legality - I'm not suing anyone. But I do care about people who are members of my hobby publishing my work as if they created it themselves.

Condoning such behavior makes it mainstream. The results are predictable. Here is a good example: A friend of mine researched a Civil War cavalry unit that had almost nothing published about it on the internet. Once he had gathered enough information to make it useful to the tiny thimbleful of people who would have any interest in it, he 'published' it on the internet. A few people (maybe one or two) began adding the information that he worked hard to procure, to their own websites, leaving the impression to other historians that they had done the work themselves. His response: he took the website down and abandoned the project. He was much more upset than I have ever been.

I've mentioned my own personal situations involving a billiards page and a vintage baseball page. In both instances I abandoned my projects. I had been adding to them every few months, sometimes years. Now I don't do anything with them. If you want information on the topics that I spent years researching, you can go to the rip-off sites and find it. It will be poorly organized and poorly researched (since they filch from wherever google leads them). But that's what others in the hobby have 'earned' by condoning such behavior.

One more example, and this is actually the worst: I used to publish very esoteric baseball history articles in National print baseball journals. I sent my last effort (my best) to a journal for publication. It went by an editorial board and was rejected. I had stepped on the toes of two historians who were on the journal's board by writing about areas that they felt they owned (a weird thing that is not limited to baseball history unfortunately). Months later I saw bits of my research on their own personal websites - presented as if they had done the research themselves. Result: I no longer submit baseball history articles to ANY print publications unless I know everyone on the editorial review board.

Okay, rant over. Let the research filching continue.

I understand your stance on this subject completely. Yes, perhaps we are giving other people permission to use uncopyrighted material the minute we post it anywhere on the web, but common decency dictates that credit is given and sources are properly acknowledged. I am often caught somewhere between the desire to share knowledge and the need to jealously guard original intellectual property. For instance, the pre-aging process that I have been developing for felt hat bodies will go with me to my grave, or to a trusted apprentice when I grow to old to make hats. I realize these days that when I use the term "common decency" I'm talking about a previously common action that doesn't seem to occur with the same frequency or have the same importance that it used to. One rant + one rant = two rants.