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The Stratoliner Society {VINTAGE}

Chepstow

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Germany/ Remscheid
Eric, Che and Mike, thanks again for your kind words and comments, It's indeed an special hat also for me.
Never seen before, a German Stetson Stratoliner in black. He is in good hands, my Word.
 

buler

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Nice grey Stratoliner I picked up today. Judging by the virgin white sweat bow this hat never saw any head time. Seems to have sat with just a center crease and a lower than normal flange for a Strat. Felt is finished beautifully on this one. Best hand I've felt yet on a Strat.

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buler

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Wisconsin
The earliest mention we've seen of the Strat was the news blurb JTL posted from July, 1940. Here is an even shorter blurb from June 18, 1940.

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Samuel

Practically Family
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781
Location
Central, California
I was lucky enough to get hold of a nice light grey Stratoliner recently. It was pretty dirty, but the felt cleaned up easily with some steaming and brushing. Still need to do some work on the liner, otherwise a super hat.

After getting the hat, I also invested in the box and a repro DC3 pin (a vintage Stratoliner pin is on the way here, thanks to Lefty).

Here are a few shots of the Stratoliner, as it is today...

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Way to clean up a great hat!
 

jlee562

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San Francisco, CA
Tri, there are thee different threads on this forum with tools to date Stetsons by liner, price, and size tag.

Please go to the links to important hat forum threads and check them out for yourself.
 

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