Stetson Sweat Stamps/ LOT XXXX

[Joshbru3]

This is fantastic, Tonio... thanks for adding it. With some high numbers posted from early hats, there is evidence to suggest that the numbers turned over from LOT9XXX to LOT0XXX sometime in the first decade of the 20th century.

You would think with all the money Stetson had, they would have bought a new set of stamps with an extra digit verses rolling over the numbers.

 

[alanfgag]

You would think with all the money Stetson had, they would have bought a new set of stamps with an extra digit verses rolling over the numbers.

A mystery. When Victor finds one of those old numbering machines on eBay maybe we will know how complicated a tool it was. ;^) I've also wondered about the three digit numbers - was there a dead spot that could be set fort the fourth digit?

It must have been a good sized consecutive numbering machine.

 

[carouselvic]

 

[BobHufford]

Lot 7543

 

[alanfgag]

Ebay auction - Clear Nutria with The Fray sweatband stamp. Pen dated 1916. Lot number hard to make out - 3XXX?

 

[Glacierman]

Just arrived today: Stetson derby, size 6-7/8, Lot no. 7742.

Here it is on my noggin:

The hat has never been worn, the band still soft & flexible. The lot number is more easily read with the eyeballs in natural light.

Now, the innards:

Looks like Mr. Bachman never picked it up. The hat came in a mis-matched black oval Stetson box (lt. nat. beaver, olive, Beav 25) that is a bit too big for it, but the box label is marked Lauderbach & Co., so there is some association with this hat.

I'm wearing it now as I type. It fits snugly and I like it. It is a fit companion (no pun intended) for the Stetson Buffalo Collection Bat Masterson derby I bought two years ago on sale with an additional 20% off.

This hat thing is starting to grow on me....

 

[splintercellsz]

Lot 3089

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[splintercellsz]

C.1915
The Event
LOT 6688/8688 (hard to read first number)

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[splintercellsz]

Stetson Special

LOT 7644

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[splintercellsz]

Stetson Extra Quality
LOT 8723

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[RJR]

Stetson Extra Quality
LOT 8723

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Good looking.

 

[splintercellsz]

1908-1909 Waite Hat Co "The Defender"

LOT 5244

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[Levallois]

Lot 5542. This hat has seen a thing or two, Black, kettle edge, Quality No. 1, 1930s?

 

[splintercellsz]

LOT 7507

 

[splintercellsz]

Turf Club
LOT#7512

 

[splintercellsz]

Exposition

LOT 5835

 

[splintercellsz]

Standard Quality

LOT 7505

 

[carouselvic]

 

[splintercellsz]

Special

LOT 7433

 

[splintercellsz]

lot 1892