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Pre- 1940s Stetson dress hats.

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1920's Exposition Homburg, Excellent Quality, Lot 4694

A Stetson Exposition Homburg, Excellent Quality grade still in excellent condition. According to the Seller, in 1955 his parents bought the original farm house of an orange orchard in Monterey Park, CA that was built in 1916. This Stetson hat was in a hat box left in the house. His mother remembers the previous owner of the house was a salesman of some sort. They kept the hat in the box all these yrs.

Silverwood was a men's clothing store founded in Los Angeles, CA in 1894 by Francis Bernard (Daddy) Silverwood. What started as 1 store grew slowly to become a chain of 18 stores but Silverwood ended their 97 yr run at yr end 1991.


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What a find HJ! Tremendous
 

Just Daniel

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Sweet hat!


1920's Exposition Homburg, Excellent Quality, Lot 4694

A Stetson Exposition Homburg, Excellent Quality grade still in excellent condition. According to the Seller, in 1955 his parents bought the original farm house of an orange orchard in Monterey Park, CA that was built in 1916. This Stetson hat was in a hat box left in the house. His mother remembers the previous owner of the house was a salesman of some sort. They kept the hat in the box all these yrs.

Silverwood was a men's clothing store founded in Los Angeles, CA in 1894 by Francis Bernard (Daddy) Silverwood. What started as 1 store grew slowly to become a chain of 18 stores but Silverwood ended their 97 yr run at yr end 1991.


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BTW, I have a similar hat, a little later example, in select quality. I like to think of these as upbrim soft hats rather than homburgs, but I'm not sure there is much of a difference.

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1920's Exposition Homburg, Excellent Quality, Lot 4694

A Stetson Exposition Homburg, Excellent Quality grade still in excellent condition. According to the Seller, in 1955 his parents bought the original farm house of an orange orchard in Monterey Park, CA that was built in 1916. This Stetson hat was in a hat box left in the house. His mother remembers the previous owner of the house was a salesman of some sort. They kept the hat in the box all these yrs.

Silverwood was a men's clothing store founded in Los Angeles, CA in 1894 by Francis Bernard (Daddy) Silverwood. What started as 1 store grew slowly to become a chain of 18 stores but Silverwood ended their 97 yr run at yr end 1991.


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Beautiful hat. That’s the kind of hat that makes me want to get another Homburg even though I’ve passed on every one I’ve ever owned.
 
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These pics are fabulous!!!
How did you do?
Thanks Matt! I started out looking for some old time & Sepia tone software or app. Never found anything too authentic looking so far but along the way I found a couple of artistic programs that I kind of like that I kept. I'm learning that the pic you start with has a lot to do with how the results look.

I wish I could find a studio or some props to use.
 
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