Brad Bowers
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GWD said:I would like to ask all those interested to look inside their sweatbands for Date Stamps. I recently sold a Sovereign with a date stamp of 1949. I think they are probably far and few between but it couldn't hurt.
tonyb said:The ones sold at the old Chestnut Street factory store in Philadelphia often had a date stamped in ink on the underside of the sweatband. I happen to have one, and I've seen others. I purchased mine, a sky blue Ambassador marked DEC 23 1957, from a seller in the greater Philly area who said it had belonged to her grandfather. On mine, the Chestnut Street mark is pressed into the leather, but without gilding, so you gotta look for it.
GWD said:Does anyone here have a Stetson "Fifteen, Twenty, Twenty-Five, Fifty or One Hundred that isn't a Clear Beaver or Open Road?
I'm working on a theory.
tonyb said:The 20 is the Ambassador I alluded to earlier in this thread. It also has a Mode edge. As well as being a 20, it is also identified as a Sovereign.
jimmy the lid said:Yup -- and The Sovereign just posted by Carter in the eBay thread is also a Stetson Twenty.
Something seems to tell me that I have seen a reference to a Stetson 100 that was not a silver belly OR-style -- I'll see if I can find it.
Cheers,
JtL
Dinerman said:a 50 is a clear beaver.