Stetson Stuff

[monbla256]

What do you all think the market would be for a new production run of the Open Road-style Stetson 100, or Stetson 7x Clear Beaver? Enough to make it worth a Hatco run, or not enough?

Stetson has decided the market for the OR model, the Western hat folks, and if they did one it would probably be in the El Presidente line and be done in the stiffer pre-creased Cattleman crease. Why bother with Stetson when you can get a 6x Shady Oak done in this manner from Peter Bros. in Ft. Worth

 

[danofarlington]

Stetson has decided the market for the OR model, the Western hat folks, and if they did one it would probably be in the El Presidente line and be done in the stiffer pre-creased Cattleman crease. Why bother with Stetson when you can get a 6x Shady Oak done in this manA hat ner from Peter Bros. in Ft. Worth

A hat like that, if I had it done in 100% beaver (dream on), I might leave it in the cattleman's crease brim up to see how that worked. Then if I didn't like it that way I could have it re-blocked. It would all have to do with what I think I could carry off in the Washington D.C. area. But it looks tempting.

 

[monbla256]

A hat like that, if I had it done in 100% beaver (dream on), I might leave it in the cattleman's crease brim up to see how that worked. Then if I didn't like it that way I could have it re-blocked. It would all have to do with what I think I could carry off in the Washington D.C. area. But it looks tempting.

My father had 2 OR's back in the '60s and wore one with a center dent/front pinch and the other he wore with a Cattleman crease and snapped the brim down in front. It's a good look IMHO and is how I wear my OR I have that I bought in 1980. Sort of a "business western"

 

[gtdean48]

... Why bother with Stetson when you can get a 6x Shady Oak done in this manner from Peter Bros. in Ft. Worth...

Good point! Stetson is just a contracted marque now days. I'd rather have Joe Peters & Company do an OR style instead of the Amon Carter version = Bound edge, ribbon & bow treatment, open crown...

 

[carouselvic]

 

[Lefty]

I figured it was you. Very nice.

 

[carouselvic]

round-up the usual suspects

 

[buler]

round-up the usual suspects

I tried. Wasn't around for the end or it would have cost someone more...

Glad you got it Vic.

flipped for your reading pleasure

 

[alanfgag]

flipped for your reading pleasure

I was hoping Vic would pull a print for us.

 

[Joshbru3]

That is SO cool. I really wish I could find a couple of these printing stamps.

 

[carouselvic]

I was hoping Vic would pull a print for us.

I'm no printer, but the best ice scrapper I ever owned was made by a printer friend who cut it from a piece of etched copper plate.

 

[zetwal]

round-up the usual suspects

Casablanca?

 

[carouselvic]

yes

 

[randooch]

I was hoping Vic would pull a print for us.

Yup.

 

[Lefty]

porcelain and 30 x 8" according to the seller

 

[HatsEnough]

I was watching that but it went for way too much for me.

 

[danofarlington]

Are there any photos out there of someone wearing a Stetson Royal Quality Sutley Mink hat?

I saw one for sale on E Bay, then googled it, and found out it's a new and not vintage hat. JR's Western Wear has them. http://www.jrswesternworld.com/servlet/the-344/Stetson-Dress-Hat-TF22032324-dsh-STLY-dsh-R/Detail It's one thing to see them alone in a photo, and another to see someone wearing it.

 

[Lefty]

 

[HatsEnough]

I was watching that clock. It went too high for me. I should have bought it the first time they had it up. It had too high a first bid so no one bid the first time.

 

[Tango Yankee]

HE, I didn't see the clock the first time around; what was the original minimum bid?