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[Landman]

Nice hat! Shudde Brothers is a well known hat shop in Houston, Texas. Besides selling hats and making custom hats they did renovation work for Stetson. If it is a renovated hat it will have "RENSH" stamped on the back of the sweatband. Here is a link to one of Alan's hats that has the "RENSH" stamp.

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/show...AVER-QUALITY&p=1558786&viewfull=1#post1558786

 

[Lorne]

I checked under the sweat, no RENSH.

Must be a straight in-house hat.

 

[Geldoc]

David, you've done it again. What a beaut.

 

[Landman]

I checked under the sweat, no RENSH.

Must be a straight in-house hat.

Great hat. Looks like a Stetson Whippet.

 

[Lorne]

Looking at its general lines, yes it does.

Looking at pictures of the whippet, it seems to have a dome bash with a pinched front. This hat is to soft to hold that shape without wet-blocking it.

I've got a cruciform bash with a pinch front. It holds that bash very well.

 

[Lorne]

I just called Shudde. They said that they sold Stetson Whippets under their own label and renovated them using their own sweats and liners without the RENSH on the liner.

I'll be damned. I scored a Whippet for 65$, shipping included.

Go Me....

 

[John Galt]

Very nice deal indeed!

 

[Landman]

Congratulations Lorne! Being from South Texas, I have seen quite a few Shudde Brothers hats and they all have been westerns or Open Road style hats. That is why I thought that was an unusual hat for them to make and was probably a renovation. Great find!

 

[Landman]

Shudde Bros Stetson 100

Here is my Shudde Brothers Stetson 100. I have had this since last year and never got around to posting pictures. Looks to me to be manufactured in the 1960's.

 

[Joao Encarnado]

Having a Stetson 100 and not posting pictures looks it doesn't have much wear...

 

[Landman]

I realized I had not posted pictures when we started discussing Lorne's Shudde Brothers hat. I was looking for a link to my pictures to show him and couldn't find any!

The sweatband does show some light wear. Some of the gold foil is missing but the sweatband is not as stained as it looks in the pictures. It looks much better in person. The felt is in very nice shape.

 

[Joao Encarnado]

Is that the original sweatband? The Stetson crest have much more wear than the Shuddle Brothers logo.

 

[Landman]

Is that the original sweatband? The Stetson crest have much more wear than the Shuddle Brothers logo.

Yes, it is original. The gold foil has come off in places making it look worse than it really is.

 

[Joao Encarnado]

Yes, it is original. The gold foil has come off in places making it look worse than it really is.

So they applied their logo on the original sweatband.

 

[Landman]

So they applied their logo on the original sweatband.

They didn't put it on there. It came from Stetson like that.

 

[g.durand]

Mike,

I'm from that neck of the woods, too, and have my eye open for a hat in my size with the Shudde Brothers label. I picked up a '40s Stetsonian last year that was originally sold there and had a name tag under the sweatband with an Austin address. But it was too large for me and I wound up selling it to fellow lounger hatsRme.

They're still in business, now located in Brookshire, TX and owned and operated by Brookwood, a community for disabled adults. All of their profits now go to the community. Here is some historical info:
http://houstorian.wordpress.com/2007/01/18/shudde-bros-hatters/

 

[Landman]

g.durand,

That must have been a big one if Charlie bought it!

What size do you wear? Maybe I might have one.

 

[g.durand]

Mike--let's just say my eyes were bigger than my hat size. I'll send you a PM.

 

[gear-guy]

New Paja Toquilla from Panama Bob

 

[job]

Nice straw hat. I thought Bob had suspended sales other than EBay.

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