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I have one Batsakes/Gus Miller but it is a navy blue and does not get much head time. A Milan however!!!
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OTHER THAN eBAY Hats: Victories, Defeats, Gripes & Items of Interest
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Extra Long Oval ...
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Horrible photos, but I saw something I recognized:
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I have only made one hat for an extra long oval client. Even this block would not have worked as he had a head shaped like a ship. Broad at the back and it narrowed considerably as it reached the forehead. I made the hat, but it worked out to about a buck an hour for my labour.
But it was a challenge that I had to try ONCE!
RossRYoung
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I swear my heads shaped the same way, like a freakin door stop or triangle or something. LO all the way for me
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Did anyone here win this? I thought it was mine, but I got distracted and it slipped through my fingers.
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I was watching it. I can understand the price it sold for, but don't understand the Lenox Amish hat selling for as much as it did.
A Velour of the era on the left ...
On eBay now:
RossRYoung
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I’ve officially promised my wife I’m done buying, unless it’s a trade or sell to make room for another. That velour would have made for a very tempting addition… beaut!
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I went $35 on the Lenox but was willing to go higher than the selling price on the velour. I keep telling myself that buyer was willing to go big so all I did was not bid the hat up rather than missing it. It helps me sleep at night.
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I don't get the price on this one either.
Mighty44
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Just Daniel
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Wow, that is pretty high for a campaign hat. Unless I’m missing something, they appear regularly on eBay. WWI hats are not that common, but they do show up and there are quite a few 20s hats.
M Hatman
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When out and about, I stopped into a antique shop and I found THIS:
(not the hats, the tri stand store display)
Each branch has the nice wide cupped top (and each at a different angle).
Very pleased with this and I have not even cleaned and oiled it yet.
(not the hats, the tri stand store display)
Each branch has the nice wide cupped top (and each at a different angle).
Very pleased with this and I have not even cleaned and oiled it yet.
Rmccamey
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When out and about, I stopped into a antique shop and I found THIS:
(not the hats, the tri stand store display)
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Each branch has the nice wide cupped top (and each at a different angle).
Very pleased with this and I have not even cleaned and oiled it yet.
Very cool find!
DaveProc
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Awesome!!
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Not mine ... just an interesting auction result.
Harry S. Truman's personal Stetson.
Harry S. Truman's personal Stetson.
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I really like the case with the presidential seal. It doesn’t look like a One-Hundred either. Was there any provenance with it? It looks like just a presidential library gift shop hat, but he case is unusual for that.
Thanks for sharing it!
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https://historical.ha.com/itm/polit...-hat-with-original-travel-case/a/6267-47050.s
Just that is was out of someone's collection. Listed as a 3X. A Eisenhower hat is coming up soon.
https://historical.ha.com/itm/polit...isenhower-personal-stetson-hat/a/6267-47049.s
It's listed as a 3X also and states that it was "presented as a gift to U.S. Senator and Ike's Assistant Secretary of Defense Frederick E. Seaton."
The giant chuck of missing brim is a deal killer for me ...
It's in a 1965 anniversary box.
From the same collection as the other hat.
M Hatman
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Yes we reflected on this before...the seal DEFINITELY does not have any of the patina of the case. And of course Truman did not wear a pre-creased hat, he creased his own. I am not aware of him EVER wearing a rancher crease.....he like d a pinch crease.
His favorite to wear was a Stetson 7xcb though he did wear nice Resistols too....AND proper fedoras (usually camber style).
PS: I wonder what size the hat was...Truman wore a 7 3/8. It looks every bit of a Presidential Library Hat that they added the case to. Buyer beware.......
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