Hatbox Homage

[Ephraim Tutt]

Knapp-felt

B

More art deco there Buler. Love that stuff!

 

[buler]

Kimball

Kimball 3 hat boxes. Had the boxes before I got the Kimball hat sitting on them.

B

 

[Michaelshane]

Rogers Peet....1930s.

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[buler]

Portis

The first empty box I bought and still my favorite.

Portis with mutiple fedora profiles...

B

 

[barrowjh]

JTL, I have a shorter version of that same box, and it is my favorite box. I am emotionally moved every time I read that ancient dialect, and wonder how it was pronounced (American Manufacture). There is a hat box for every hat in my collection (fur felts and straws, not for caps), but none are particularly noteworthy except for this - a CK box:

Most of the time when I visit antique stores I come home with a hat box, only on one occasion did I find a hat, and it is a beater. I have maybe a half-dozen nice boxes that need decent hats in them yet . . .

Here is a pic including that 'American Manufacture' Stetson box, with the cinnamon Sovereign w/mode edge sitting on it that I won from Rilico on OFAS for $137 a while back.

 

[buler]

Dunlap

Box for a Dunlap Flight.

B

 

[buler]

Some group shots

Churchill, Disney, Kimball, Mallory, Caxton

Stetson 100 year anniversary, Borso on a Churchill, Knox, Emerson

 

[mayserwegener]

Hückel Exklusiv Homburg Box

Hückel Exklusiv Homburg Box with original hat.

 

[RBH]

Cool thread!
THANKS Mr Tutt. :eusa_clap

A few of mine.

 

[ScottF]

1930's Adam

 

[Lefty]

This was the non-leather version of the Stetson 100 case. With red interior.

My 7xCB came in the same type of box.

 

[Mario]

Early/mid 1940's Mallory box. It came with my gray/magenta colored Mallory Ten Cravenette.

 

[Ephraim Tutt]

Churchill, Disney, Kimball, Mallory, Caxton

Fantastic collection but Crikey! Wots that one on the left Buler? It looks like a panama made for the Elephant Man.

 

[Ephraim Tutt]

JTL, I have a shorter version of that same box, and it is my favorite box. I am emotionally moved every time I read that ancient dialect, and wonder how it was pronounced (American Manufacture). There is a hat box for every hat in my collection (fur felts and straws, not for caps), but none are particularly noteworthy except for this - a CK box:

Most of the time when I visit antique stores I come home with a hat box, only on one occasion did I find a hat, and it is a beater. I have maybe a half-dozen nice boxes that need decent hats in them yet . . .

Here is a pic including that 'American Manufacture' Stetson box, with the cinnamon Sovereign w/mode edge sitting on it that I won from Rilico on OFAS for $137 a while back.

Don't see too many C & K boxes JB. Thanks for posting yours.

So when did hatboxes move from round and octagonal shapes into square boxes? I'm thinking the 60's and picked up speed in the 70's when creativity was sacrificed to functionality.

And JB - man I love that cinnamon lid!

 

[Ephraim Tutt]

Cool thread!
THANKS Mr Tutt. :eusa_clap

A few of mine.

Rusty, I do love those Strat boxes...and the Flagship...and....

 

[Ephraim Tutt]

Hückel Exklusiv Homburg Box with original hat.

Mayser, I think that's the first Huckel box I've ever seen. Fabulous!

 

[Ephraim Tutt]

With the Courtney hat that came with it. But the hat doesn't look chocolate color to me....

B

Doesn't that box just scream Old West!? Brilliant

 

[HarpPlayerGene]

That Adam box of Scott's is beautiful with the blue. I've got a more generic one:

This is one of my favorites:

Here's one that's purely functional:

This is the seller's pic from an old auction. By the time this hat arrived, the box was demolished.

This steel tube contained the 100ish year old Montecristi:

And this big (hold three hats) Knox box:

 

[Ephraim Tutt]

That Adam box of Scott's is beautiful with the blue. I've got a more generic one:

This is one of my favorites:

Here's one that's purely functional:

This is the seller's pic from an old auction. By the time this hat arrived, the box was demolished.

This steel tube contained the 100ish year old Montecristi:

And this big (hold three hats) Knox box:

That old Borsa box is something to treasure. I've never seen anything like it. As for the 'funtional' roll up tin - it's got style!

And hell...a triple hatter by Knox?! Never knew they existed. Where do you guys find these things??!

 

[Ephraim Tutt]

The first empty box I bought and still my favorite.

Portis with mutiple fedora profiles...

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Every Portis box I've seen just reeks of cool.