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Max, Thanks! Your latest Optimo Chicago is fantastic!Wow, Steve! And wow again!
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Max, Thanks! Your latest Optimo Chicago is fantastic!Wow, Steve! And wow again!
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Optimo Nashville Western in Thoroughbred Melusine.
I am really proud of this one. Tiffani at Optimo said it's the first.
The first of many hopefully, Max. Fantastic hat. Versatile, too. Works both with the brim up with Western style pinches, and with brim down Fedora style. Congrats, Max!Optimo Nashville Western in Thoroughbred Melusine.
I am really proud of this one. Tiffani at Optimo said it's the first.
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Thanks, Steve! It is the first Nashville in Thoroughbred Melusine felt anyone has ordered from Optimo. Crazy Mexicans.The first of many hopefully, Max. Fantastic hat. Versatile, too. Works both with the brim up with Western style pinches, and with brim down Fedora style. Congrats, Max!
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Wow! Another beauty, Max. Not loco at all [emoji6]Thanks, Steve! It is the first Nashville in Thoroughbred Melusine felt anyone has ordered from Optimo. Crazy Mexicans.
I have another Optimo Melusine, but this one's black. Shinier, too.
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Optimo Nashville Western in Thoroughbred Melusine.
I am really proud of this one. Tiffani at Optimo said it's the first.
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Brim down, changed the pinch.
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Veo que me quieres dar un ataque cardíaco [emoji1][emoji1][emoji1][emoji1]Thanks, Steve! It is the first Nashville in Thoroughbred Melusine felt anyone has ordered from Optimo. Crazy Mexicans.
I have another Optimo Melusine, but this one's black. Shinier, too.
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Son! [emoji1]Veo que me quieres dar un ataque cardíaco [emoji1][emoji1][emoji1][emoji1]
Muy bonito los dos. Parecen unos peluchitos[emoji106][emoji1]
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El Jefe!Optimo Nashville Western in Thoroughbred Melusine.
I am really proud of this one. Tiffani at Optimo said it's the first.
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Beautiful, isn't it? I love it.El Jefe!
That's the one, Max.
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A very difficult one to beat, and it is the hat you ought to wear if It was 50 years ago snd all of them were variations of the same identity.Beautiful, isn't it? I love it.
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I’ve acquired a number of new hats lately, but have been deficient in posting pics. I’ll try to get to them.
Here’s the latest arrival, another Stetson “Handmade for Belfry” fur felt, this one named “Windsor.” Silverbelly, with matched ribbon edge. Color looks so different in different lights. Very nice felt and fit.
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Fantastic looking hat, Daniele. The proportions are just right and a heather felt wins bonus points (yes, even if it is in part green).For mixed felts they usually sing the praises of Borsalino, but we forget that the mountain hatters, Barbisio and Cappellificio Cervo, have interpreted the theme in a splendid manner
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Super Bantam Cervo size 60 or 7 1/2 US
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Felt is a melange of green and some red, called "Loden" in the production workshop in Sagliano Micca - Biella a few years ago
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The heather felt finish is typical of the mixed with a slight hair, sometimes bristly. The consistency is quite firm
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The measurements are as follows: 6 cm of brim with a superb overwelted finish, the crown is 11 cm. and the tape at 4 cm.
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The Bantam brand is also used by Cervo for the construction of Italian Alpine troops hat
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The hat was sold in the depths of southern Italy, in Taranto former cappelleria Pisapia of which I have a large series of special "Bantam" felts produced by Cappelificio Cervo
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Great find, Daniele. And indeed quite unusual. Never seen a Borsalino like that before.Second hat with a "special" felt
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Borsalino Qualità Superiore size 6 or 59 cm. or 7 3/8
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One of the strangest Borsalino in my collection, usually these are felts that the Cappellificio Cervo produced
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Felt is a dark green with straw-colored inserts, but it is not marked "misto" as some might suppose
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The color is "Brughiera" and the ribbon "Ombù". I have to be honest the first time I see a similar denomination of the ribbon and I think another time I saw a hat with this kind of green (Brughiera)
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It was sold in Torino, around forty years ago
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The felt is very consistent and despite appearances it firmly maintains the shape
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The dimensions are as follows: brim at 5.5 over welted cm. the open crown is at 13 cm. and the ribbon is 3 cm.
Borsalino of the "bizarre" series
What does a man with every hat under the sun order as a custom? Well, it's this one. Ballsy and quite cool, Max!Optimo Nashville Western in Thoroughbred Melusine.
I am really proud of this one. Tiffani at Optimo said it's the first.
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If only some of these sellers could be charged a reshaping fee!
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Well another great packing job ! I’m 4 for 4 on my last 4 hats. I’ve been looking for something that would look good with a copper colored ribbon and I want to try my hand at making a shark gill bow. Thought this Mallory would look good in it, and only $10....
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Beautiful reshape love the finished hat
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Another excellent rescue! I don't know what are they thinking[emoji1]Well another great packing job ! I’m 4 for 4 on my last 4 hats. I’ve been looking for something that would look good with a copper colored ribbon and I want to try my hand at making a shark gill bow. Thought this Mallory would look good in it, and only $10....
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