Show us their hats!

[GHT]

On the "So Trivial" thread, Edward mentioned Oscar Wilde. https://www.thefedoralounge.com/thr...lly-ticks-you-off.81430/page-730#post-2948808 Now there's a fellow to inspire in both hats & quotes.
"The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated."
"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about?"
"Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right and wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development."

 

[Mighty44]

Good shot of Lucky Lindy but really it is the press corp’s haberdashery that steals the show here for me.

 

[Gobi]

The very hat that got me into hats in the first place as a young teenager well over 20 years ago watching Gunsmoke. The show was new to me at the time but I saw Festus Haggen sitting on a log by the fire. At that very moment I thought, that's all I want out of life right there. I just want to be Festus Haggen sitting on a log in the woods by the fire. The hat said it all. To this day, Gunsmoke is still my all time favorite TV show and Festus is my spirit animal. I'm currently in the process of making a detailed replica of his hat. I'm currently trying to achieve the proper taper to the crown. I've always loved this close up shot in the Cowboy Hat book and I'm obviously using it as a reference. Years ago I noticed the fabric supports at the front of the brim which I assume they used to keep the brim from becoming too dilapidated. I always thought that was interesting.

 

[RBH]

I was just thinking if the shaft was ebony or macassar ebony then a cerakote in black would shine for the handle.

The very hat that got me into hats in the first place as a young teenager well over 20 years ago watching Gunsmoke. The show was new to me at the time but I saw Festus Haggen sitting on a log by the fire. At that very moment I thought, that's all I want out of life right there. I just want to be Festus Haggen sitting on a log in the woods by the fire. The hat said it all. To this day, Gunsmoke is still my all time favorite TV show and Festus is my spirit animal. I'm currently in the process of making a detailed replica of his hat. I'm currently trying to achieve the proper taper to the crown. I've always loved this close up shot in the Cowboy Hat book and I'm obviously using it as a reference. Years ago I noticed the fabric supports at the front of the brim which I assume they used to keep the brim from becoming too dilapidated. I always thought that was interesting. View attachment 458377

I was fortunate to meet Ken Curtis when I was around 19 years old. He was dressed as Festus and he was my favorite western charater.
I ask him about his hat and from what I remember him telling me was when he got the role of Festus he went to a prop box and found this hat... when he saw it he knew it was a hat Festus would wear.
He also said that it was cloth medical tape on the brim placed where the brim was cracked and tore from years of use. On screen it was not as noticible but in person it was more so.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

…I saw Festus Haggen sitting on a log by the fire. At that very moment I thought, that's all I want out of life right there. I just want to be Festus Haggen sitting on a log in the woods by the fire.

 

[Gobi]

I was fortunate to meet Ken Curtis when I was around 19 years old. He was dressed as Festus and he was my favorite western charater.
I ask him about his hat and from what I remember him telling me was when he got the role of Festus he went to a prop box and found this hat... when he saw it he knew it was a hat Festus would wear.
He also said that it was cloth medical tape on the brim placed where the brim was cracked and tore from years of use. On screen it was not as noticible but in person it was more so.

I've always wondered if it was the same hat from the beginning. It looks like a totally different hat from the early black and white seasons to the later seasons. Could be just wear and tear but it's difficult to tell. The medical tape thing is cool to know, that's what I kind of thought it was but wasn't sure. I figured they put it there to maintain the shape of the cracking brim. Lucky you to have been able to talk to him!

 

[M Hatman]

 

[BobHufford]

I was reading a murder mystery that split time between the current day and the filming of the silent film "The Covered Wagon" in 1923. One of the characters in the novel (as well as a the movie in real life) was Tim McCoy. Timothy John Fitzgerald McCoy (April 10, 1891 – January 29, 1978) went on to star in many Hollywood westerns. In addition to being an actor he was also a real cowboy, a former military officer (Colonel), politician and an expert on Native American life.

 

[dkstott]

RIP Jerry Lee Lewis. Killer

 

[Rmccamey]

Drinking beer in Fredericksburg, TX, 1895.

 

[Rmccamey]

Charles Siringo, Matagorda county, TX, 1885. Cowboy, writer, Pinkerton detective. Buried in Englewood, CA.

Look at the hat. It almost looks like a bound brim but it may only be a shadow. The punch is interesting - high on the crown. I wonder if it is an open crown and if there is also a similar punch high on the rear? (The revolver is nice, too!) I love the technical detail of this photograph as well.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

Charles Siringo, Matagorda county, TX, 1885. Cowboy, writer, Pinkerton detective. Buried in Englewood, CA.

Look at the hat. It almost looks like a bound brim but it may only be a shadow. The punch is interesting - high on the crown. I wonder if it is an open crown and if there is also a similar punch high on the rear? (The revolver is nice, too!) I love the technical detail of this photograph as well.

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Great photo, Randy. The hat reminds me of my modern Stetson Bat Masterson…sort of an outsized western homburg.

I love the Single Action Army and the walking stick/cane too; however, in my world he would have me reading him the riot act for having his finger inside the trigger guard.

 

[RBH]

Oklahoma Lawmen Bud Ballew [L] and Buck Garrett [R].
Ballew was a deputy US marshal and is credited with hunting down and killing Bill Dalton, the last of the Dalton Gang.
Garret [nephew of Pat Garrett] served as Sheriff of Carter County, Oklahoma (1911 - 1922).

Photo 1912

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Charles Siringo, Matagorda county, TX, 1885. Cowboy, writer, Pinkerton detective. Buried in Englewood, CA.

Look at the hat. It almost looks like a bound brim but it may only be a shadow. The punch is interesting - high on the crown. I wonder if it is an open crown and if there is also a similar punch high on the rear? (The revolver is nice, too!) I love the technical detail of this photograph as well.

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Stetson offered a version of the wide ribbon, pencil curled Congress with just such a punch crease. They also offered a version of the flat brimmed, mid ribbon Austral with that crease.

The cane handle appears to be a Whippet, the sporting man’s racing dog of the day. The Whippet was a symbol often used on canes & parasol.

"I was thinking, what this town could really use is a racetrack." -Kurt Russell as Wyatt Earp in 'Tombstone'.

 

[Rmccamey]

Very nice. I may have to use that crease on my next custom. Is Gannon up to the challenge?

Great photo, Randy. The hat reminds me of my modern Stetson Bat Masterson…sort of an outsized western homburg.

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I love the Single Action Army and the walking stick/cane too; however, in my world he would have me reading him the riot act for having his finger inside the trigger guard.

Stetson offered a version of the wide ribbon, pencil curled Congress with just such a punch crease. They also offered a version of the flat brimmed, mid ribbon Austral with that crease.

The cane handle appears to be a Whippet, the sporting man’s racing dog of the day. The Whippet was a symbol often used on canes & parasol.

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"I was thinking, what this town could really use is a racetrack." -Kurt Russell as Wyatt Earp in 'Tombstone'.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

Very nice. I may have to use that crease on my next custom. Is Gannon up to the challenge?

I think Gannon could do it right. If he can’t he’ll also let you know.

 

[Rmccamey]

You think this is a 3 inch brim before the curl, or wider?

I think Gannon could do it right. If he can’t he’ll also let you know.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

You think this is a 3 inch brim before the curl, or wider?

A lot depends on the size. For me, I’d say 3 1/2” inches with a 3/4” curl. At 7 1/8 I think you could go with less brim.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

CARLOTTA “LOTTIE DENO” THOMPKINS THURMOND. (1844-1934)

One of the top poker players & gamblers throughout TX & NM regardless of gender. Said to have frequently cross paths with & beaten Doc Holiday at poker. In retirement from the road she & her husband Frank Thurmond would own a gambling room (& later the hotel in which it was in), a liquor distribution business, two saloons, a billiard hall, & stakes in several mining operations, all in NM.

Her given nickname that she played under came from “Lotta Dinero”. It is said that she was the inspiration for both the fictional characters of Miss Kitty of TV’s Gunsmoke fame, & of Laura Denbo in the motion picture Gunfight at the OK Corral.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

John Nelson, mountain man, western scout, popular performer & storyteller in Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show touring Europe.