Is there something I missed about this hat?

[EricH]

Or is someone having a Monday morning Ebay hangover. It looked pretty good to me but not that good.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8257250989&rd=1&sspagename=STRK:MEWA:IT&rd=1

And it was the right size too. Perhaps we "big heads" should start a hat time share for fedoras if this keeps up. Whatcha think TonyB? Eric (Suffering Ebay disappointment)

 

[WEEGEE]

CHECK OUT THIS TREAD

EricH,


http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=6777


Regards,

WeeGee

 

[MattC]

Similar hat in Black

I bought a similar hat in black about a year ago on ebay for $25. My hat really needed to be cleaned, so the real cost was $55. It is a nice hat, although the finish is very unusual and not to everyone's taste ( it is a real long hair). But $300 seems nuts.

 

[Matt Deckard]

That hat from th insides looks pretty 1920's to me and if it were my size I might have gone pretty high myself, though not that high. I have seen that lining in bowlers that have survived the 20's (sturdier hats), though to find a Stetson Fedora that old in that condition is a find.

 

[Feraud]

whoa. Looks like someone got the auction fever!

 

[tonyb]

If that were my hat--in that condition, of that vintage, in that style and color and size--I doubt that $305 would be enough for me to part with it. Yup, it's a lot of dough for what the uninitiated might think of as "just an old hat," but even at that price it's a bargain compared to most of what can be had in modern off-the-shelf lids.

 

[Harry Lime]

Someone made him an offer he couldn't refuse.

I think someone bought into the carefully construed Capone myth the seller perpetrated. While he didn't say it was Capone's he implied it could be. Sort of took a page from the Peterman catalogue. People buy the sizzle as much as the steak, right?

Pretty clever seller. Guys who do Ebay right do alright, obviously.

Harry Lime

I'm not saying it's a bad hat. I'm just saying there is a lot of evidence that states no way was it Al Capone's.

 

[Mr. Rover]

You're a clever guy, Marc.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

If that were my hat--in that condition, of that vintage, in that style and color and size--I doubt that $305 would be enough for me to part with it.

Well, it was my hat and it was just too big on me ... and it looked too big on me. However, three hundred bucks fits me just fine!

 

[Marc Chevalier]

I'm not saying it's a bad hat. I'm just saying there is a lot of evidence that states no way was it Al Capone's.

No one can say that I didn't consult the experts first :

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=6413

 

[tonyb]

Well, it was my hat and it was just too big on me ... and it looked too big on me. However, three hundred bucks fits me just fine!

I imagine it does. Maybe I could find a hat or two around here that would look good on the nouveau riche.

 

[GA Wildlifer]

Congratulation

As long as ebay is going crazy, who better to profit than Loungers.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

 

[Fedora]

I am amazed by the price of vintage hats on ebay. I just wish I would have bought more back a couple of years ago when no one seemed to want them!! And the prices would reflect that too. At that time, I was raving about the vintage hats, and the bargain they were, on another site. One of my friends who had bought way more than me pm'ed me and advised not to rave so much!! He said the prices might go up. He is a very bright man!!! I kept raving, and the prices have gone through the roof. (Kinda, sorta, as I am sure my big mouth had nothing to do with it, but this site may be the culprit)

At any rate, to me, there are some vintage hats that I would pay the big bucks to own. But, the hats would have to be ready to wear, out of the box, with no refurbishments necessary. And, they would have to be particular brands, from particular decades of the early 20th century. If you do not know what brands I am talking about, forget about it. I will keep my big mouth shut from here on out. I learned my lesson. Fedora

 

[besdor]

I did bid on the hat , but got way outbid . The hat is from the 1920's . Snap brim fedoras from that age are tough to find . Most of the hats you see on Ebay are 1940's and up . I also have a derby from the 1920's with that logo inside . They last longer and were very commmon so there are plenty around .

 

[Dusty Rhodes]

Especially with knucklehead buyers like me

As long as ebay is going crazy, who better to profit than Loungers.

The $300 Open Road is in, now I need a haircut or else a good stretch to make it fit right. Now I sit there with the buyers remorse hangover saying to myself "Dusty, why did you buy this hat?" LOL It's a inunique color though so I will hold onto it as it may fetch an even prettier penny than I paid for it someday. :beer:
DR

 

[D. Hats]

it's not that tight is it?

Dusty,
I can't believe the OR's that tight. That's disappointing... my sincerest sympathy.
You have way more experience than me, but I've noticed that on these older hats that haven't been worn in years, if ever, that they seem to have tightened up. I can still picture in my mind's eye that one photo of the inside, this OR did not look as though it had ever been worn, in person, does it still look that way?
Brand new hats I've purchased 7 3/8 seems to be okay, older hats, 7 1/2 to 7 5/8 seems to be what works best.
I have not stretched a hat myself, but isn't this OR close enough that you could get away with stretching it?

 

[Dusty Rhodes]

Dusty,
I can't believe the OR's that tight. That's disappointing... my sincerest sympathy.
You have way more experience than me, but I've noticed that on these older hats that haven't been worn in years, if ever, that they seem to have tightened up. I can still picture in my mind's eye that one photo of the inside, this OR did not look as though it had ever been worn, in person, does it still look that way?
Brand new hats I've purchased 7 3/8 seems to be okay, older hats, 7 1/2 to 7 5/8 seems to be what works best.
I have not stretched a hat myself, but isn't this OR close enough that you could get away with stretching it?

I can stretch it. mainly I need a haircut.
DR

 

[tonyb]

I can stretch it. mainly I need a haircut.
DR

So it can double as your time-for-a-haircut meter?

 

[Dusty Rhodes]

That about sums it up

So it can double as your time-for-a-haircut meter?

But it will soon be too warm for it, or in my case, any hat, for that matter. I can't deal with humidity and something on my head. That's OK, I'm indoors all the time anyway.
DR