No Name Hat Manufacturing Co.

[patrickvintage]

New member. First post. This thread is kind of old but thought I'd see if there's more interest in the No Name Hat Company. I own two very nice examples. In fact both are new-old-stock. They're probably 1890s time period. Here's one of them. I need to take interior photos of course. I'll post if anyone is interested.

 

[Yamahana]

New member. First post. This thread is kind of old but thought I'd see if there's more interest in the No Name Hat Company. I own two very nice examples. In fact both are new-old-stock. They're probably 1890s time period. Here's one of them. I need to take interior photos of course. I'll post if anyone is interested.

Heck yeah we want interior photos!

 

[patrickvintage]

Coming up!!

 

[patrickvintage]

Just a bit of history on the hats. Issac Greentree of Cheyenne Wyoming closed his Clothing Store in March of 1900. My pair of hats came from his leftover stock. So I'm putting a probable date of manufacture sometime in late 1899. Possibly before.

 

[patrickvintage]

Under the sweat tags.

 

[patrickvintage]

Note 'The Fray' stamp.

 

[patrickvintage]

I've had the pair ( and a couple other un-marked maker hats) for 10 years or more. Beautiful early hats.

 

[patrickvintage]

The 1890s group I bought. They'd been in storage since 1900. Remarkably good condition. All new-old.

 

[DaveProc]

New member. First post. This thread is kind of old but thought I'd see if there's more interest in the No Name Hat Company. I own two very nice examples. In fact both are new-old-stock. They're probably 1890s time period. Here's one of them. I need to take interior photos of course. I'll post if anyone is interested.

Yes, please post more pics!

 

[patrickvintage]

A few more.

 

[Rmccamey]

You have some mighty nice old hats!

A few more.

 

[patrickvintage]

You have some mighty nice old hats!

Thanks!

 

[Mighty44]

Thanks!

Fascinating…

 

[Blare]

Incredible!!!

 

[AHP91]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/395481238572

 

[georgie girl]

Not my hat, but I came across this hat on an auction site (already sold) and I thought I would use it to bump this thread that seems like more research than hats. Chas P Shipley Saddlery/Mercantile started in Kansas City in 1885, Charles died in 1943 then his son Clyde continued to run it until 1972.

 

[MikeinRome]

Not my hat, but I came across this hat on an auction site (already sold) and I thought I would use it to bump this thread that seems like more research than hats. Chas P Shipley Saddlery/Mercantile started in Kansas City in 1885, Charles died in 1943 then his son Clyde continued to run it until 1972.

I swear! I was just about to post photos of this hat but you beat me to it. I was trying to buy the hat at auction but their website threw me a curve and before I could figure things out, it had been sold. Here's some other pics you didn't show.

 

[georgie girl]

Here's some other pics you didn't show.

Dang, you're right... long day and guess I forgot to press the arrow. I was thinking "too bad they didn't have photos of the tags"

Glad you caught that and posted them!

 

[MikeinRome]

So this hat was made sometime after 1926, when the Stetson family dissolved the No Name business and Hutt & Wasserman began making hats under that name in Danbury, Connecticut. It seems this firm later opened another factory in Allentown, PA, in 1947, I think, per attached article. PS: It seems that a member of the Wasserman family, Seymour Wasserman, bought the Henry the Hatter store in Detroit in 1948, from what I can tell from another article online.

 

[BobHufford]

I was trying to buy the hat at auction but their website threw me a curve and before I could figure things out, it had been sold.

Dang Mike — I thought for sure you were in on it when I saw you give my derby above a “like” late last night. I’ve been watching this hat for a week and was up on the auction today until about lot 150 when I had to go to my daughter’s and run a chainsaw the rest of the day.

I totally spaced out the end and was going to congratulate you on the $75 win. Bummer.