OK- So Date this Vintage French Fedora!

[BellyTank]

Here's another- it's old, it's virtually unused, if at all.
Excellent condition.

It's dark Chocolate brown with matching trim, bound edge and may have possibly been a Homburg in a previous life..?

Please excuse the dust- it needs a good brushing.
The edge binding is also a little puckered.

The hat is from "Salvert" Maitre Chapelier, of Rouen and it's a size 60.

But how old..?

Well..?
Marc Chapelier... I mean Chevalier?

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[Lorne]

Age of this hat...

I'd say it was made right after the French surrendered, but I have not idea which war....


Lorne

 

[BellyTank]

A curse of Cheese on you mon ami!


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[scotrace]

1935.

Mon cher Kiwi, il est ?©vident, non ?

 

[BellyTank]

Wee-wee

Non-

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[Lorne]

Belly Tank

You forgot, "Your father is a hamster and your mother smells of eldiberries..."


Lorne

 

[BellyTank]

Oh- I really must have forgotten-


Elderberries..?

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[Brad Bowers]

Couldn't tell you the age, but can tell you that your hat started out its life as a Homburg, and somewhere along the way, someone flattened out the curl. You can tell by the placement of the binding.

Brad

 

[BellyTank]

Yes Brad the lining is wider on the under-side, which would have been showing outward in brim-up-turned trim. But I've seen "Fedoras" with a similar setup.

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