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[BobC]

Both my Shady Oak and Royal Scot arrived by USPS yesterday. Both were in fine shape with no crush creases or shipping damage! Just a single shot of the Shady Oak now; I'll post the full range of shots in the Shady Oak thread later today.

Here is the Royal Scot:

Both are in fine condition. There are no tags or stickers under the sweat of the Royal Scot. Both have been lightly steamed and brushed, and I reshaped the awful cattleman's crease in the Shady Oak to an acceptable cattleman's crease; I don't think a Shady Oak can survive in Texas without a cattleman's crease!

Excellent, Mr. P. Congratulations! Both of those are beauties! I need a Shady Oak to join my lonely 7X CB.

 

[rlk]

Looking forward to this one:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...88&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&autorefresh=true

Nice price!

WOW!, That's a deal!! I'm looking forward to seeing what it really looks like and how old it is.

 

[Midwest Boater]

New Ribbon from Optimo
Before:

i think i saw that on ebay. i never saw its potential very nice hat and well spotted rlk

 

[Midwest Boater]

not new

this hats not new to me ive had it over 25 years but it is new to the lounge.

my Mad Bomber. The salesman didnt know what kind of fur it is and so far no one ive met is really sure.

 

[cybergentleman]

gotta get a new one of those

not every day one matches their hat to their facial hair....

 

[billysmom]

Looking forward to this one:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...88&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&autorefresh=true

Nice price!

Garrett - Can't wait to see it! Well done!

Sue

 

[bolthead]

Love it.....

this hats not new to me ive had it over 25 years but it is new to the lounge.

my Mad Bomber. The salesman didnt know what kind of fur it is and so far no one ive met is really sure.

Great hat.....looks like fox to me.

 

[Wolfen]

this hats not new to me ive had it over 25 years but it is new to the lounge.

my Mad Bomber. The salesman didnt know what kind of fur it is and so far no one ive met is really sure.

Its very similar to my fox fur hat, so I would also say fox.

 

[RobStC]

this hats not new to me ive had it over 25 years but it is new to the lounge.

my Mad Bomber. The salesman didnt know what kind of fur it is and so far no one ive met is really sure.

Please don't take this personally, Midwest Boater, but..... Is that a hat, or just a very bad wig???

Rob St.C

 

[Roninjedi]

this hats not new to me ive had it over 25 years but it is new to the lounge.

my Mad Bomber.

Hmm... Nifty hat, but something's missing. Somehow it just doesn't look complete without a sword in your hand and an army of Cossacks or Mongols backing you up.

 

[Mario]

Perfect beard/hat(...) color coordination!

 

[Midwest Boater]

thanks for all the nice complements everyone, and no umbrage taken Rob St.C many folks ask if its my real hair i just tell them its a rogaine overdose

 

[ScottF]

Found this at an antique store today - looks to be very old and made of Otter. Also interesting: liner tip says 'Designed and Made for Frank E. Hunt, Mt. Vernon, Wash.' (I bought it just a few miles from Mt. Vernon).

Great hat. Must have been for a hot-head. Call in the Witchdoctor for head resizing. Up there with the Seal Velour for water resistance and Political Incorrectness.

'Nutria' is Spanish for 'Otter'. I read somewhere that Stetson's use of the word 'Nutria' was indeed the Spanish usage. I bought this one just to take home and examine carefully, figuring someone with a smaller head would be interested in it...someone 'otter' be anyway.

 

[feltfan]

The salesman didnt know what kind of fur it is and so far no one ive met is really sure.

It is suspiciously color coordinated with your mustache...

 

[Felt and Straw]

Ouch

...someone 'otter' be anyway.

That one hurt...:eusa_doh:

 

[Mulceber]

She's a fixer-upper... -M

 

[Midwest Boater]

It is suspiciously color coordinated with your mustache...

that made me laugh ... then scratch my beard .. then laugh again.... .. .. nah it couldnt be

 

[feltfan]

'Nutria' is Spanish for 'Otter'. I read somewhere that Stetson's use of the word 'Nutria' was indeed the Spanish usage. I bought this one just to take home and examine carefully, figuring someone with a smaller head would be interested in it...someone 'otter' be anyway.

No.

I mean, yes, I just checked two excellent Spanish/English dictionaries.
Collins backs you up. Velasquez backs you up in English to Spanish, but
in Spanish to English, it notes that the Nutria is Myopotamus coypus.
In fact it is now more correctly Myocastor coypus.

The scientific name makes clear what is what. That name refers only
to the rodent from South America we know so well from our fine hats.
"Otter" refers to two animals, neither of them the nutria.
First remember that there are river and ocean otters.

The river otter is Lutra canadensis. The marine otter is Enhydra lutris.
Note that we are talking about three distinct genera, so they aren't
even closely related. They don't look much alike, either. To my eye,
having observed both river otters and nutria in the wild,
the nutria is a big rat, while otters are sleek (and seem a lot smarter).
So while there may be misuse and misunderstanding in the Spanish
speaking world, a nutria is not an otter.

That sleek beast on your sweatband looks like a river otter:

And here's a nutria:

Don't mean to come down like a ton of bricks, but I've seen how
information can be perpetuated on this forum, so I thought I'd clarify
this ASAP. Also I'd say it makes your derby WAAAAY more rare.

 

[handlebar bart]

Hmm... Nifty hat, but something's missing. Somehow it just doesn't look complete without a sword in your hand and an army of Cossacks or Mongols backing you up.

He doesn't look like he needs an armylol lol Cool hat.

 

[ScottF]

Don't mean to come down like a ton of bricks, but I've seen how
information can be perpetuated on this forum, so I thought I'd clarify
this ASAP. Also I'd say it makes your derby WAAAAY more rare.

Okay, maybe I didn't express myself well, (wouldn't be the first time)...

My understanding is that when Stetson used the word 'Nutria', they were talking about an Otter that Mexicans referred to as a 'Nutria'.

I'm conjecturing that the word 'Otter' on my derby is referring to what Stetson calls a 'Nutria'.

I might be wrong, and it doesn't really matter, but I'll blame Stetson for confusing us in the first place by not simply using the word 'Otter' to begin with, since they were making their hats way up in Philadelphia, not in Mexico.