THE MALLORY MILE

[buler]

Great color! Yes, early to mid 50s is correct.

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[40Cal]

Great purchase Fruno! I think you are about right on the dating.... late '40s early "50's. I 'm looking for a Dallas.... haven't found the right one yet. Congrats!


Oh, just re-read the part about the paper size tag... early to mid 1950's. Great hat Fruno!

 

[RJR]

Super catch!

 

[moontheloon]

such a great lid Jim
seeing the details confirms my assumption that this was a special piece

 

[Phineas Lamour]

Just picked up a Mallory porkpie at a local thrift store for $15! No pics yet. My wife is giving it to me for Christmas. I will post some after I receive it. They never have any hats in that shop and then today they had one in my size and price range!

 

[moehawk]

Got this in the mail today.

My guess at vintage is 60's, but that's just a guess. The velour is of good quality, the rope band is a little loose, but I may replace it with a ribbon and bow anyway. The fit is perfect on my 7 5/16 head.
All in all, a nice hat.

 

[moontheloon]

recent Mallory score
Figured I would introduce her to her family in this thread

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[Lotsahats]

The sweatband on that one looks brand new. Lovely.

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[moontheloon]

The sweatband on that one looks brand new. Lovely.

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yeah ... the entire hat looks pretty much unworn

makes you wonder where some of these hats have been for all these years ...

... always makes me feel like there is a stash of deadstock hats in my size somewhere just waiting for me to find it

 

[Frunobulax]

yeah ... the entire hat looks pretty much unworn

makes you wonder where some of these hats have been for all these years ...

... always makes me feel like there is a stash of deadstock hats in my size somewhere just waiting for me to find it

Not if I get there first.

I'm developing a theory. It seems there is a great drop-off of vintage hats at or around the end of WWII. For my part, jumping the 1950 line into the 40s is difficult, as those 40s hats are rare and getting rarer. Most of the nice hats we see are dress hats from the 50s and 60s. It's my theory we are benefitting from the decline in hat wearing around 1960. The hats we are buying are the ones shelved after they fell out of style. Some of the newer looking ones, like Moon's (and the Mallory Dallas I picked up last week), may have been purchased and shelved immediately. The habit of buying a man a hat as a gift didn't die immediately, so there are some out there that have this history. The remainder were worn, but over time less frequently. Then they were put in the back of the closet until the day the estate was liquidated. Then they enter our market.

Prior to this, men didn't keep an old hat, they likely pitched it. So those hats men had previous to the "extinction event" of the 60s were used up and discarded. I'm sure at the time, a man's hat was more of a throw-away item when it was used up, rather than refurbed, repurposed, or handed down. Those hats were incinerated or ground into landfills long before we were born.

So anyway, that's my working theory of why there seems to be a sweet spot and cut off for vintage lids.

 

[Spudman]

I love that hat Moon!


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[moontheloon]

Not if I get there first.

I'm developing a theory. It seems there is a great drop-off of vintage hats at or around the end of WWII. For my part, jumping the 1950 line into the 40s is difficult, as those 40s hats are rare and getting rarer. Most of the nice hats we see are dress hats from the 50s and 60s. It's my theory we are benefitting from the decline in hat wearing around 1960. The hats we are buying are the ones shelved after they fell out of style. Some of the newer looking ones, like Moon's (and the Mallory Dallas I picked up last week), may have been purchased and shelved immediately. The habit of buying a man a hat as a gift didn't die immediately, so there are some out there that have this history. The remainder were worn, but over time less frequently. Then they were put in the back of the closet until the day the estate was liquidated. Then they enter our market.

Prior to this, men didn't keep an old hat, they likely pitched it. So those hats men had previous to the "extinction event" of the 60s were used up and discarded. I'm sure at the time, a man's hat was more of a throw-away item when it was used up, rather than refurbed, repurposed, or handed down. Those hats were incinerated or ground into landfills long before we were born.

So anyway, that's my working theory of why there seems to be a sweet spot and cut off for vintage lids.

I think you already found it if you know what I'm sayin....

absolutely substance to this theory

that's why when I see guys like Alan with deadstock hats from the 20s I nearly fall off my chair

even some of the 40s hats I find get my heart pounding to the point that I have to go outside to get some air

I'm more of a 40's / 50s guy myself ... but I would not kick a 20s lid out of bed

 

[RJR]

Right,Moon,some of the acquisitions on here are just mindblowing.

 

[Frunobulax]

Well, some folks on here, like Alan, got started earlier than most of us. Plus he, like Steve, are true collectors and historians.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Not if I get there first.

I'm developing a theory. It seems there is a great drop-off of vintage hats at or around the end of WWII. For my part, jumping the 1950 line into the 40s is difficult, as those 40s hats are rare and getting rarer. Most of the nice hats we see are dress hats from the 50s and 60s. It's my theory we are benefitting from the decline in hat wearing around 1960. The hats we are buying are the ones shelved after they fell out of style. Some of the newer looking ones, like Moon's (and the Mallory Dallas I picked up last week), may have been purchased and shelved immediately. The habit of buying a man a hat as a gift didn't die immediately, so there are some out there that have this history. The remainder were worn, but over time less frequently. Then they were put in the back of the closet until the day the estate was liquidated. Then they enter our market.

Prior to this, men didn't keep an old hat, they likely pitched it. So those hats men had previous to the "extinction event" of the 60s were used up and discarded. I'm sure at the time, a man's hat was more of a throw-away item when it was used up, rather than refurbed, repurposed, or handed down. Those hats were incinerated or ground into landfills long before we were born.

So anyway, that's my working theory of why there seems to be a sweet spot and cut off for vintage lids.

The theory can apply to other things from the 1960's & before as well. For example by the early 1970's it was common to buy a new LCD quartz wrist watch cheaper than it would cost to have your 1940's - 50's - 60's 17j manual or auto wind watch cleaned & adjusted. Fortunately most of the time those watches went into a drawer somewhere to be rediscovered yrs later.

 

[Frunobulax]

Palying some catch-up, as I haven't posted this one yet. Acquired a couple of months ago from fellow Lounger Miamibruno - Mallory Coast-To-Coast

A very comfortable and stylish hat. It's become a grabber and seen a lot of head time since I purchased it.

 

[feltfan]

Nice. I have had a Coast to Coast for many years now. A real workhorse of a hat, though I've had to get the
sweatband replaced. Classic.

 

[RJR]

The color of that C to C is great,Fruno.

 

[1mach1]

Nice score, Fruno. I have never bought a hat from Miamibruno, but I see his hats all the time on eBay, and they look nice! Awesome!

 

[buler]

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