Homburg into fedora/fedora into homburg?

[Naphtali]

I bought a Dobbs Twenty with 2.5-inch brim with Cavanaugh rolled edge and slotted crown. To my untutored eye it looks to be a homburg as it sits. But it also appears to become a fedora with snap brim as I choose. The only obvious difference I can discern between it an my Borsalino fedoras is stiffness of its brim.

If possible from my description, please identify which it is.

 

[moehawk]

Cavanagh or otherly-named felted edge makes it a fedora. Homburgs have a deeply curled brim edge that is asymmetrically bound in grosgrain ribbon.

Felted or Cavanagh edge



Homburg brim with curl and bound edge

 

[deadlyhandsome]

I bought a Dobbs Twenty with 2.5-inch brim with Cavanaugh rolled edge and slotted crown. To my untutored eye it looks to be a homburg as it sits. But it also appears to become a fedora with snap brim as I choose. The only obvious difference I can discern between it an my Borsalino fedoras is stiffness of its brim.

If possible from my description, please identify which it is.

John @moehawk is right. A defining characteristic of a homburg is the ribbon bound brim edge. The edge also has to be curled to be a homburg, but fedoras also can have curled brim edges. You can’t have a Cavanagh edge on a homburg.

 

[Naphtali]

Replies and photographs have furnished precisely what I needed. It is a fedora. And yes, I bought it as a fedora.

Many thanks.