The hard-to-find or unusual Hat Circle

[drmaxtejeda]

Hand dyed Oxblood from Black Sheep, only one!

Excellent!

 

[drmaxtejeda]

Since Max is the OP and he’s posting “Hard to find or unusual hats” based on what he’s found in the market over the last couple of years I think that the parameters are obvious.

There are all sorts of other threads for other hats, but I’m enjoying the big tent nature of this thread. Some might have been common at the time they were originally sold, but scare/rare on the market today.

My hardest to find hat so far has been this:

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What makes it truly rare isn’t the brand, or the model (I don’t know what model it is), the condition (mint!); what really makes it rare is the size:

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Excellent!

 

[drmaxtejeda]

I thought we were just having a little fun...

Yeah! Geez!

 

[drmaxtejeda]

Hi Max,

The sweatband is surely applied with a reed. The front is fabricated using Maclachlan's AirVac ventilation construction... same as in the Silver Beaver 50.

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Wow! Thank you, Alan! I couldn't see that in the pictures Juan Carlos sent me

 

[drmaxtejeda]

Here is a rare hat just for fun in the positive spirit of the thread. Maybe I am being a bit mischievous, the hat is not necessarily rare except that I’m pretty sure the Doc does not have one

Here is a Knox Thirty!

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No, I don't!​

 

[drmaxtejeda]

A few days ago I wrote my opinion on the so-called "rarities" in a thread asking for our personal opinion on being a collector or wearer of hats. Maybe it wasn't the right place and few have read what I think. A post on this thread can be good-natured or evil, I opt for a constructive post because through reasoning, criticism and proposals you can get better results, even in a game like Fedora Lounge. First of all, I am sorry Garrett expresses his will to leave, considering that he is one of the rare ones who actually posts examples of hats of enormous quality and historicity. Think again, or exclude yourself, as I do, from some useless threads. Having said that, I believe that Max's joy at having found what he considered a point of arrival in his collection prompted his enthusiasm to propose a thread to celebrate the victory. Some joined in, others refrained from comments after reading, others probably ignored. Of course there is the problem, as Garrett points out, of what rarity means and, although each of us has his own personal definition of rarity, we will never reach a point of equilibrium in which rarity is shared. I think Garrett interprets with his words a sense of unease for this race, without meaning, to consider something "rare" that belongs to one's personal sphere. In this regard, some of us might open a similar thread every two weeks, but the purpose of some, myself included, is to share news, hats and other items that bring a greater understanding of the topic to other fellows. For this purpose I have found myself in difficulty in recent times, too many words for little and very little willingness to share, if not: I have this and you will have to suffer and spend a lot of money to get it. Here I stop and invite you to make some reflections on the subject.

I actually started to think of a thread like this one when @alanfgag found a hat made entirely of cork, Daniele. I also remember a Boater he showed that was made of toquilla straw I think belongs here.

 

[drmaxtejeda]

Now this has me wondering if what have been called sales sample hats and gift certificate hats were man bun hats for one of the earlier man bun periods.

Hahaha

 

[drmaxtejeda]

I'm with Jim on this one: nothing wrong with having a bit of fun and if you don't care for the "rare" or "hard to find" label, maybe post an unusual hat or skip the thread altogether. Nothing wrong with that.
In some sense all hats are rare in the same way that none of them are. Type "vintage hat" as a search into Ebay and you'll get forty thousand results at any given time and two weeks ago there were three Stetson100's, "grail hats" to many, on auction at the same time. Rare? I think "rare" is a very relative measure and Max has proven that with some perseverance and the willingness to spend some serious cash you can find yourself with a collection of stellar hats in only a few years time.
I'm as interested as the next guy in the history of the hatting industry in all its facets. There are plenty of threads dedicated to that and thank goodness there are. But that doesn't mean we can't have some less serious threads as well. Isn't there a popular "WTF hats" thread as well?
I think it's a pity we don't seem to do well as a forum whenever there's difference of opinion about something.

Yes. I didn't mean to start a quasi-theological discussion on the meaning of "rare" or hat purity. Besides, I had already changed the thread title to "hard-to-find or unusual". Why so much trouble?

 

[drmaxtejeda]

Yes. I didn't mean to start a quasi-theological discussion on the meaning of "rare" or hat purity. Besides, I had already changed the thread title to "hard-to-find or unusual". Why so much trouble?

Or is the objective of such comments and objections to keep the new arrivals in their place at the back lines?
"Oh, this is why the Old Guard left" sounds an awful lot like "there goes the neighborhood". Excuse us, your excellency.

 

[drmaxtejeda]

Does anyone have pictures of a Stetson Mindoro? I have never actually seen one...

 

[drmaxtejeda]

 

[drmaxtejeda]

Mindoro is the seventh largest island in the Philippines by land area with a total of 10,571 km² and with a total population of 1,331,473 as of 2015. It is located off the southwestern coast of Luzon and northeast of Palawan. Mindoro is divided into two provinces: Occidental Mindoro and Oriental Mindoro. Wikipedia

 

[deadlyhandsome]

Or is the objective of such comments and objections to keep the new arrivals in their place at the back lines?
"Oh, this is why the Old Guard left" sounds an awful lot like "there goes the neighborhood". Excuse us, your excellency.

It’s not your hats or the size of your collection or speed which you acquired it. It’s pure unadulterated discrimination and bias: everyone hates the dentist!

Actually, a few years back I broke a tooth the day before Christmas while out of state visiting family. The dentist that lived a couple doors down from my sister where we were staying opened his office just for me and fixed my tooth right then. He even wrote off the part my insurance didn’t pay. That man earned his place in heaven right then as far as I’m concerned. I was in serious pain and he was just too nice/good to see me suffer. My kids love that story and I haven’t eaten corn nuts since.

 

[drmaxtejeda]

Hahaha! In Mexico, "tostadas" or hard corn tortillas are great for business.
A good friend of mine's wife once called me at 3 am on Christmass eve, because Carlos, my friend, had so terrible a tooth ache he was trying to pull out his own premolar with some pliers.
The pressure in the pulp was so great a little squirt of blood came out when I accessed it.
I had never seen that before or since.
Such awful middle-of-the night emergencies thankfully stopped when sublingual 30 mg ketorolac was allowed as an over-the-counter medication in Mexico.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

Hahaha! In Mexico, "tostadas" or hard corn tortillas are great for business.
A good friend of mine's wife once called me at 3 am on Christmass eve, because Carlos, my friend, had so terrible a tooth ache he was trying to pull out his own premolar with some pliers.
The pressure in the pulp was so great a little squirt of blood came out when I accessed it.
I had never seen that before or since.
Such awful middle-of-the night emergencies thankfully stopped when sublingual 30 mg ketorolac was allowed as an over-the-counter medication in Mexico.

I don’t know how the DEA feels about it, but that “30 mg ketorolac” sounds like something I should have on hand. Human flight, landing on the moon, splitting the atom...they all pale in the importance of human developments when compared to the advances in dentistry.

 

[hatsRme]

It’s like pulling teeth to keep this thread on track!
So, @drmaxtejeda, there must be a story, and I’m sorry if I missed it, but how did you come about the MacLachlin 100?
I am truly impressed by your perseverance!!

 

[drmaxtejeda]

I don’t know how the DEA feels about it, but that “30 mg ketorolac” sounds like something I should have on hand. Human flight, landing on the moon, splitting the atom...they all pale in the importance of human developments when compared to the advances in dentistry.

We will buy a stock for you when you come visit, Brent

 

[drmaxtejeda]

It’s like pulling teeth to keep this thread on track!
So, @drmaxtejeda, there must be a story, and I’m sorry if I missed it, but how did you come about the MacLachlin 100?
I am truly impressed by your perseverance!!

I have been asking sellers I buy from to keep an eye out for MacLachlan hats or any other hats I am interested in, and either let me know when they are going to list one, or to offer them to me directly.
This one seller has sold me MacLachlans before, so when she sent me pictures of yet another one, I didn't think much about it until I opened the pictures. The one showing "Golden Beaver Hundred" was hard to see, and I almost dismissed it.
I was about to get in the shower at the time, but when I saw it I went into fight or flight mode. My heart was pounding!
I looked at the time stamp of her message, and it was three hours earlier! I replied yes!, and waited anxiously for the reply, hoping she hadn't sold it already.
She was asking $62 dollars, so I was sure she would have sold it immediately.
Then, when she replied, the app on my phone wouldn't let me pay for it!!!
After ten minutes of anger, I realized I could just enter the site on regular internet, and bought it right away.
My brother-in-law, Juan Carlos, who by now has become a shipping quality expert, says I shouldn't send the seller any more money because it was packed very poorly, but I don't care. It could have been packed in the shape of a churro, and I would still consider it priceless, because by then I thought Mac Lachlan didn't make any Hundred hats under their own name.
I had only seen the "Silver Beaver Fifty" ads, and it makes sense that the Hundred is the "Golden Beaver", but I hadn't seen any ads for it at all, so I had lost hope.

 

[hatsRme]

I have been asking sellers I buy from to keep an eye out for MacLachlan hats or any other hats I am interested in, and either let me know when they are going to list one, or to offer them to me directly.
This one seller has sold me MacLachlans before, so when she sent me pictures of yet another one, I didn't think much about it until I opened the pictures. The one showing "Golden Beaver Hundred" was hard to see, and I almost dismissed it.
I was about to get in the shower at the time, but when I saw it I went into fight or flight mode. My heart was pounding!
I looked at the time stamp of her message, and it was three hours earlier! I replied yes!, and waited anxiously for the reply, hoping she hadn't sold it already.
She was asking $62 dollars, so I was sure she would have sold it immediately.
Then, when she replied, the app on my phone wouldn't let me pay for it!!!
After ten minutes of anger, I realized I could just enter the site on regular internet, and bought it right away.
My brother-in-law, Juan Carlos, who by now has become a shipping quality expert, says I shouldn't send the seller any more money because it was packed very poorly, but I don't care. It could have been packed in the shape of a churro, and I would still consider it priceless, because by then I thought Mac Lachlan didn't make any Hundred hats under their own name.
I had only seen the "Silver Beaver Fifty" ads, and it makes sense that the Hundred is the "Golden Beaver", but I hadn't seen any ads for it at all, so I had lost hope.

Well done!! Your size, too!? You earned this one, more than any other.
You could stop now, but was there a MacLachlan 200?!!

 

[drmaxtejeda]