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The Noble Schoble

buler

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Another Schoble derby made for a Milwaukee company. This time the Hurley-Reilly Co started in 1898. Very flat brim curl. Interesting sweat bow.

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Very cool! Wonder what the speed rating was for 1911. A Bugatti could do about 60mph at that time. A Model T somewhat less, I think.
 

Kevlar

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City of Origin for Schobel Hat Company?

I am confused: I just bought a Schoble hat. In the liner, it says Fifth Avenue New York Since 1886. And yet while doing researrch on the hat I read that the company was started in Philadelphia in 1886 (and closed in 1960).

What's the correct answer? (It is a great fur felt fedora that looks like the love child created by an Indy hat and the fourth Dr. Who hat.)
 

Brad Bowers

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Hat manufacturers and their brands often had some sort of retail presence on Fifth Avenue for the cachet. This was reflected on the hat's markings, but very few manufacturers ever MADE hats on Fifth Avenue. One exception is that Crofut & Knapp operated a women's hat factory on the second floor of their 620 Fifth Avenue shop and office building during the 1920s.


The major Factories were located elsewhere in NYC, Brooklyn, New Jersey, Philadelphia, and Connecticut.

Brad
 

buler

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Kevlar, most info on the Schoble company is in this dedicated thread: -> Noble Schoble

Please update the thread title with the correct spelling of Schoble. It will help in future searches. Thanks.

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Here is a very tardy entry. Realized yesterday that this little beaut hadn't been posted appropriately in this thread. My Schoble...
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