Playboys on Parade!

[RJR]

Simply WOW!

 

[40Cal]

Dang....what a fantastic score....my size too

Thanks Jared! You reminded me how thrilled i was not only to find the hat but to find out it was also my size!

 

[Bob Roberts]

Thanks Jared! You reminded me how thrilled i was not only to find the hat but to find out it was also my size!

...AND a mint box!

 

[40Cal]

I posted this grey Playboy in the Vita Felt thread but I guess it belongs here too.

 

[alanfgag]

Great one!

If the sweat is flexible enough to peek behind without damage, let us know if there is a LOTXXXX number. It would be a large stamp, most likely towards the front of the hat. Here is one from a similar vintage:

 

[40Cal]

Alan, they look like twins! The sweat on mine is in perfect shape. Unfortunately , it doesn't have a stamped lot number on it.

 

[alanfgag]

Thanks for looking. The LOTXXXX numbers seem to stop sometime shortly after 1940.

 

[jlee562]

The one on the bottom actually needs a new sweat. Oh, and the dog was curious as to what was so interesting. Both 50's Playboys.


I got a little obsessed with photographing the two felt thicknesses. Thanks to this nifty clip on lens for my phone:



The unlined one on top is the lightest, thinnest hat in my collection. I think the bash changes if I blow on it.

 

[carouselvic]

2 of the 3 that came from the same owner....a 92 year old man
pre-war gold ink size tag...40's mfg. labels



a 50's hat with a replaced ribbon


the 3rd hat's sweat was beyond help, these two had a bath

 

[hatophile]

Super ones Vic.

 

[1mach1]

Very nice, Vic. I like the black one, and it's vented crown.

 

[carouselvic]

3rd of three....a 50's hat

Just cleaned with an orange sponge....sweat is 100% dead....a color I did not own

 

[Joshbru3]

There's still some life in that sweat, Vic! I still see leather......kind of

 

[Frunobulax]

Received my first Playboy yesterday, via the Bay. It's my "accidental" hat, as the bid I threw at it wasn't expected to survive. I was as surprised as anybody when I won it. The listing had it described as reddish brown. So far, under mostly incandescent or fluorescent light, it's appeared anywhere from greyish to greenish with a little brown. Now that I've got some direct sunlight, I still don't see the red. I dig these old colors, they seem to play in light so freely, giving a different take on the felt every time you look at it. OK, on to the pics!

The innards...

Guessing early to mid 50s based on the liner tip and logo on the sweat - with maple leaf. It's everything the previous posters have said - soft as butter, supple, light, easily shaped. It arrived crushed in a small box (no surprise there), but responded well to the steaming and I opened the crown with relative ease, though there were some ghost bashes that needed to be coaxed out from the previous crease. There are no tags under the sweat, just a keyhole size tag, so no re-order tags or anything like that. There is a small store price tag; however, it's so faded I can only read a couple of the numbers on it. It looks like the hat retailed for $7.50, maybe? Could be $12.50, too. Nothing on the sweat but the number 4 in magic marker and, like a previous poster mentioned, A714 is stamped on the liner.

Great hat. I'm thrilled to have it in my collection!

 

[moontheloon]

You have yourself a beaut there Fruno.
I would agree with your assessment of its vintage.
Love the color... I really like my Playboy but the color is not my favorite... It is sort of a robins egg blue with some gray tones... It has a real spring feel.
Yours has that year round appeal.
Great bash you've applied .... Can't wait to see it on the noggin .
Congrats on a real gem


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[Frunobulax]

TY, Moon!

 

[RJR]

That is a beauty,Fruno.

 

[hatophile]

Nice Fruno. ON my monitor it almost has an olive green look. Either way, nice hat!

 

[moehawk]

Ha! I saw this thread on top and just knew your oopsie-I-won-it Playboy arrived.
Glad you like it.
Lucky dog.

 

[Bob Roberts]

Received my first Playboy yesterday, via the Bay. It's my "accidental" hat, as the bid I threw at it wasn't expected to survive. I was as surprised as anybody when I won it. The listing had it described as reddish brown. So far, under mostly incandescent or fluorescent light, it's appeared anywhere from greyish to greenish with a little brown. Now that I've got some direct sunlight, I still don't see the red. I dig these old colors, they seem to play in light so freely, giving a different take on the felt every time you look at it. OK, on to the pics!

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Guessing early to mid 50s based on the liner tip and logo on the sweat - with maple leaf. It's everything the previous posters have said - soft as butter, supple, light, easily shaped. It arrived crushed in a small box (no surprise there), but responded well to the steaming and I opened the crown with relative ease, though there were some ghost bashes that needed to be coaxed out from the previous crease. There are no tags under the sweat, just a keyhole size tag, so no re-order tags or anything like that. There is a small store price tag; however, it's so faded I can only read a couple of the numbers on it. It looks like the hat retailed for $7.50, maybe? Could be $12.50, too. Nothing on the sweat but the number 4 in magic marker and, like a previous poster mentioned, A714 is stamped on the liner.

Great hat. I'm thrilled to have it in my collection!

Looks in great shape. A real steal. Wear or in Good Health!

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