The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

[Lt.hats]

Yes that is a HAT!

Wow, I want one! I wonder what the dimensions are on that crown and brim. I bet it cost a pretty penny even back in the 1930's.

 

[Joao Encarnado]

Wow, I want one! I wonder what the dimensions are on that crown and brim. I bet it cost a pretty penny even back in the 1930's.

It probably was a expensive hat due to the dimensions of it.
I think no one can make a felt so big. I can only speculate it would have a 10" crown with a 6" or 7" brim.

 

[ChicagoWayVito]

I think no one can make a felt so big.QUOTE]

Pretty sure that current hat body felters would just need an updated cone to accommodate the extra felt needed for when the blow the felt in. But yeah it would be hard to get as the felt will shrink by up to 60% during the process. With the right tools it could probably be done with a flat piece of felt that has been made through dry felting processes and not the wet process. However my concern with dry felt would be the strength and stability without another type of binder being added.

 

[ChicagoWayVito]

Probably been posted before, but ...

That is just a nice looking hat.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Yes that is a HAT!

I'm wondering if he wasn't a Wild West show performer late in the era, or some other kind of performer. That is obviously a brand above his shirt pocket & snaps on the pocket flaps but I can't tell it that is some sort of detail on the sleeve or damage to the picture. He's reading something from a paper. Perhaps he was a cowboy on a serial radio show.

 

[Lt.hats]

I believe he was actually a Chicago gangster. Louis Alterie aka Diamond Jack Alterie.


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[buler]

Yes, there are hats in this pic....

B

 

[Joao Encarnado]

Pretty sure that current hat body felters would just need an updated cone to accommodate the extra felt needed for when the blow the felt in. But yeah it would be hard to get as the felt will shrink by up to 60% during the process. With the right tools it could probably be done with a flat piece of felt that has been made through dry felting processes and not the wet process. However my concern with dry felt would be the strength and stability without another type of binder being added.

Probably.
But then if no one tries, no one will ever know.
I would be a person to try it if I had the tools to do it.

 

[Zombie_61]

...That is obviously a brand above his shirt pocket & snaps on the pocket flaps but I can't tell it that is some sort of detail on the sleeve or damage to the picture...

It almost looks like a modern "watermark" electronically superimposed over the image, but it's probably water damage on the actual photograph.

 

[ChicagoWayVito]

I'm wondering if he wasn't a Wild West show performer late in the era, or some other kind of performer. That is obviously a brand above his shirt pocket & snaps on the pocket flaps but I can't tell it that is some sort of detail on the sleeve or damage to the picture. He's reading something from a paper. Perhaps he was a cowboy on a serial radio show.

It looks like Louis "Diamond Jack" Alterie, at least when compared to the photo that Buler posted. In any case if it is him he was a rancher and a gangster. Also known as Louis "Two Gun" Alterie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Alterie

 

[Joao Encarnado]

He is (was) Alterie. It's the same hat Buler posted but another picture of it.

 

[buler]

 

[buler]

There's a hat here somewhere....

 

[Short Balding Guy]

San Francisco circa 1917. "Chalmers town car." The ideal conveyance for European nobility, effete academics and the like.

Great hats, but do check the town car interior. Do not want any dirty boots or work clothes in that car.

 

[Joao Encarnado]

There's a hat here somewhere....

All tiny hats.

 

[RBH]

“I ain't afraid to love a man. I ain't afraid to shoot him either.”
Annie Oakley

1922
Annie Oakley with a gun Buffalo Bill gave her.

 

[moontheloon]

some nice caps in this video

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=520219771491548

 

[Bamaboots]

Pearl Hart, said to have committed one of the last AZ stagecoach robberies.

 

[buler]

Don't think I posted this one yet. Poland, circa 1919.

 

[RJR]

Don't think I posted this one yet. Poland, circa 1919.

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