Stetson Sweat Stamps/ LOT XXXX

[MikeinRome]

Stetson Number 1 Quality, Lot Number 7656. Probably dates about 1939, give or take about a year.

 

[MikeinRome]

Stetson Number 1 Quality, Looks like Lot Number 5584. Dates to 1920's.

 

[MikeinRome]

Stetson Medalist straw. 2 3/4 inch brim. Lot Number 7634. Since first use of the term Stetson Medalist was in June 1938, this hat seems to date to a tight window of 1938 or 1939, 1940 at the very latest, I'm estimating.

 

[MikeinRome]

Stetson Boss Raw Edge Kettle Finish Real Nutria. Lot Number 7434.

 

[MikeinRome]

Stetson Real Nutria. Lot Number 7724.

 

[MikeinRome]

Stetson Number 1 Quality. Lot Number 7688. This hat has the later mfg tag instead of the earlier 3 panel tag. Looks to me like the Lot Numbers in the 7600s is when the tag switch occured. (Just saw where Alan reached this same conclusion back in 2013.)

 

[MikeinRome]

Stetson, Lot Number 7691. Very late 30's or maybe 1940 at latest.

 

[MikeinRome]

"The Sheridan" model hat made for the Bloom Shoe & Clothing Co of Sheridan, Wyoming. It has a mfg tag for Thanhauser Hat Co, but it also has a Stetson Lot Number on the sweatband, Lot Number 224X, so Stetson must have made this hat. I think the hat dates approximately 1912 offhand, and I'm convinced it was made pre 1917 because of the Union label.

 

[Bamaboots]

Stetson Lot Number on the sweatband

Stetson must have made this hat

I see a number but nothing to indicate Stetson made the sweat other than your say so and that's just another unsubstantiated claim. There are already enough of those around.

 

[MikeinRome]

I see a number but nothing to indicate Stetson made the sweat other than your say so and that's just another unsubstantiated claim. There are already enough of those around.

I really thought you were smarter than that.

 

[Bamaboots]

Smarter than what? Than to accept your say so as proof? Yes I am. You have offered nothing that says Stetson made that hat. A lot # on a sweat yet a completely different mfg tag and size tag than Stetson was using at the time. Maybe, but I don't know that and unless I've missed something, neither do you. You assume too much and expect others to go right along. Not a wise thing coming from a man making remarks about the intelligence of others.

 

[MikeinRome]

Smarter than what? Than to accept your say so as proof? Yes I am. You have offered nothing that says Stetson made that hat. A lot # on a sweat yet a completely different mfg tag and size tag than Stetson was using at the time. Maybe, but I don't know that and unless I've missed something, neither do you. You assume too much and expect others to go right along. Not a wise thing coming from a man making remarks about the intelligence of others.

I'm not remarking about your intelligence. I'm remarking about your lack of same.

 

[Bamaboots]

There it is. Get personal when you have nothing to lean on.

 

[MikeinRome]

There it is. Get personal when you have nothing to lean on.

The fastest way you can prove me wrong is for you to start a thread listing all of the known hat manufacturers who had Lot Numbers exactly like that on the back of their sweatbands. Shouldn't take you long- I'd say about 5 minutes, since the grand total of such hatmakers IS EXACTLY ZERO!!!

 

[Bamaboots]

I'm not trying to prove you wrong. I am trying to get you to show me you are right based on evidence and citation, not based on what you "think, assume or believe" because none of that matters. And you can't do it.

 

[MikeinRome]

I'm not trying to prove you wrong. I am trying to get you to show me you are right based on evidence and citation, not based on what you "think, assume or believe" because none of that matters. And you can't do it.

I'm not here to please you. If you don't like my posts, just consider that they are not directed to you or for you and go about your life. I might not have this attitude if you ever did anything constructive, but all I see from you is gripping and complaining and criticizing what others do.

 

[Bamaboots]

Mike, you want to continue with this being personal, go ahead but remember, that’s on you. Personally, IDGAF about you or your personal remarks. If I did, you wouldn’t want to play.

What I do care about is the accurate history of hats and how this site is THE repository for said hat history. Your assumptions and conclusions without citation have added nothing to that. Keep deflecting, though. It may eventually work.

Do you have a history of blaming others for your attitude?

 

[MikeinRome]

Mike, you want to continue with this being personal, go ahead but remember, that’s on you. Personally, IDGAF about you or your personal remarks. If I did, you wouldn’t want to play.

What I do care about is the accurate history of hats and how this site is THE repository for said hat history. Your assumptions and conclusions without citation have added nothing to that. Keep deflecting, though. It may eventually work.

Do you have a history of blaming others for your attitude?

Don't recall anybody appointing you as the Fedora Lounge Police.

 

[Bamaboots]

Not me. Think he went to FB.

 

[MikeinRome]

I think the Lot Number placement at rear of hat was a rare mistake, that the sweatband was fed backwards into whatever machine stamps info on it. The reorder number usually found stamped on the right rear was found in the front, where the Lot Number is usually found.

Please ignore what I said here about the sweatband being fed into a machine. I just theorized that nonsense.