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Not my size, but someone should jump on this fast https://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-TH...=item1ef2789c1e:g:tKQAAOSwF0NcOsdF:rk:56:pf:0
Great save,Terry.Adding my refurbished Kevin McAndrew Western to the mix.
Thank you, Bob!Great save,Terry.
Well, indeed it did BEFORE you changed the ribbon, OR's are thin ribbon. The Dobbs Westward is by origional design an OR clone..........1940s Dobbs Westward that had the thin ribbon replaced by a much wider one, courtesy of @Miamibruno . Incredibly soft supple felt, much softer than my Westward from the same vintage. Does it still count as one of the "Other Open Roads"?! Definately my favorite hat of the week.
Both beauties, Mark. I have to try that crease sometime.Here are two additions of mine, one a really nice unique vintage Meyser (Thanks Stefan!!)......the other, a much newer (80's) maybe Borsalino.....I MUST say the Borsa (the one with my extra wonky crease) is quite a surprise being now one of the thinnest, nicest, felts in my collection......you can almost blow a crease into the felt! And I love the "frayed" ends on the Borsa ribbon.
Now, the finish on that Meyser.......simply WOW......they called it a "peach" finish, and it is!
Anyway, here they are.....
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1940s Dobbs Westward that had the thin ribbon replaced by a much wider one, courtesy of @Miamibruno . Incredibly soft supple felt, much softer than my Westward from the same vintage. Does it still count as one of the "Other Open Roads"?! Definately my favorite hat of the week.
Well, since we've discovered very old ads on here of Open Roads with wider ribbons (before the current configuration became what we now know as an OR), sure!
Regardless, like @ M Hatman says, great looking hat.
Super hats! That Borsa crease needs to be in the Crease thread!! Dynomite!!Here are two additions of mine, one a really nice unique vintage Meyser (Thanks Stefan!!)......the other, a much newer (80's) maybe Borsalino.....I MUST say the Borsa (the one with my extra wonky crease) is quite a surprise being now one of the thinnest, nicest, felts in my collection......you can almost blow a crease into the felt! And I love the "frayed" ends on the Borsa ribbon.
Now, the finish on that Meyser.......simply WOW......they called it a "peach" finish, and it is!
Anyway, here they are.....
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THANKS.....and.....done!Super hats! That Borsa crease needs to be in the Crease thread!! Dynomite!!
B
Geez, didn't realize you'd take it do personally, Mark.I will say those early 1930's wide crown ribbon OR's did not have a bound edge. And by those standards of all OR simular hats from all periods, ANY hat could qualify as an OR clone..........and I do not think that is really the intention of this thread which is clearly interested in the now classic OR configuration.....a configuration that has been consistiant (minor brim width variance) now for over 75 years and copied by MANY hat companies.
Just saying......
As with the Stetson Whippet, few would call any hat without the wider "french bound" edge and wide crown ribbon as any kind of Whippet, but in 1922 the Whippet in no way resembles that hat as we now call a "classic" as well. Now not just any hat is a whippet, Whippet clone.
And yes, the westward looks great even with the wide ribbon...
M
PS: Need I mention that the ORIGIONAL configuration of a Dobbs Westward IS the classic thin ribbon OR configuration? I personally love the "new" look, but would really have liked to see a picture here of the hat before the ribbon was changed out......if for nothing else than the historical perspective of the hat as originally sold.
Fruno,Geez, didn't realize you'd take it do personally, Mark.
Sent directly from my mind to yours.
No harm no foul. I was a bit prickly last night. I actually thought I had successfully deleted that a few minutes later.Fruno,
Not personally at all my friend... I just don't like "muddied waters" as they say....and this thread IS all about the thin ribbon clones. I DO love seeing everybody's hat.....just in their proper place. We have a LOT of newbies getting into vintage and they need to know "what is what" in regard to predominant hat styles and I don't like adding to the all to present confusion that already exists. Heck just look to eBay for all the so called "Stratoliners", "Whippets" and "Open Roads" for sale, that are anything but those hat models, the ones we here keep laughing at all the time!!!
It is I think my "curator" "historian" gene....keeping everything in it's proper place and documented accordingly.......at least as well as we can anyway
No, I understood your post of inclusion of a really nice hat (square), but my bad gene would not allow that it fit in this round hole......
My bad really.....
M
Love those Hatman. I can just imagine the peach finish.Here are two additions of mine, one a really nice unique vintage Meyser (Thanks Stefan!!)......the other, a much newer (80's) maybe Borsalino.....I MUST say the Borsa (the one with my extra wonky crease) is quite a surprise being now one of the thinnest, nicest, felts in my collection......you can almost blow a crease into the felt! And I love the "frayed" ends on the Borsa ribbon.
Now, the finish on that Meyser.......simply WOW......they called it a "peach" finish, and it is!
And the color of the felt and the contrasting matched binding and ribbon, another WOW!
Anyway, here they are.....
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That is so cool! I have never seen one."The Nebraskan" by Resistol. This isn't my hat but I wanted to add it to the list. Since Nebraska is my home state I would love to have one in 7 1/4 or 7 3/8 should anyone see one, I would appreciate hearing from you. They were made for the Nebraska Centennial in 1967.
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