gilligan
One of the Regulars
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Thanks Brent, I appreciate that.I don’t see anything myself that definitely puts it in the 1940s, but it could well be. Family stories etc. generally cannot be trusted. I have many hats that family assured me “grandpa” was wearin in his wedding photo in 1946 when I can tell definitively that the hat was made in the 1960s.
Occasionally, we do see some date stamped hats which really help. Without certain and verifiable provenance or date stamps, all we can do is speculate on a date range. OPA and OPS and NRA markings are wonderful, but they are the exceptions. Dating hats is usually an imprecise science and it’s far more common for sellers to state their hats are older than they actually are then it is for them to claim they are newer than they are.
In the end, it probably doesn’t matter what the exact age of a hat is, or even which decade it was made it. A hat made the last day of 1949 or the first day of 1950 will be equally wonderful!
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