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This week I will feature Echter Borsalino Hats which were made for the German Market. The hats will be from the late 1920s up to the 1950s.

Echter Borsalino Export Qualität "Cescosca" "Palladio", date stamped 3/19/59. The "Palladio" Felt color is fantastic. As usual very pliable Felt with great hand. The Form is very nice as you can see from the photos. As mentioned previously Export Qualität designation was added in the mid 1950s.

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Absolutely beautiful Steve
 

Randall Renshaw

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Wonderful. Congratulations

Love this hat. The ribbon is great, and the crown height is perfect!
Thanks, Blare and Brent! I’m ecstatic about this one.
The brand, the ample proportions, the fairly unique pug, the wide double stitched binding, the liner, the decade of manufacture; everything.
A Lee that comes close to this one is my next target. Wish me lots of luck!
 

Randall Renshaw

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This week I will feature Echter Borsalino Hats which were made for the German Market. The hats will be from the late 1920s up to the 1950s.

Echter Borsalino Export Qualität "Cescosca" "Palladio", date stamped 3/19/59. The "Palladio" Felt color is fantastic. As usual very pliable Felt with great hand. The Form is very nice as you can see from the photos. As mentioned previously Export Qualität designation was added in the mid 1950s.

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Man, Steve, I really like that one!
The color and shape is fantabulous.
 
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That’s a great Pi t-shirt.
You sure r squared away with the Peters Bros. Milan, Jim.
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Dang slide rule soldiers. (Thanks)

With "pi" - outstanding. I posted this observation on FaceBook a few days ago.

Since pi is a fixed value of 3.1415 – an 8" apple pie and a 12" apple pie have the same amount of calories!

My HS math teacher told me "Pi R squared."

I told him, "No, pie R round. Cornbread R square."

Love it, crown to the moon!

Appropriate analogy. It's an analogy, right?

This week I will feature Echter Borsalino Hats which were made for the German Market. The hats will be from the late 1920s up to the 1950s.

Echter Borsalino Export Qualität "Cescosca" "Palladio", date stamped 3/19/59. The "Palladio" Felt color is fantastic. As usual very pliable Felt with great hand. The Form is very nice as you can see from the photos. As mentioned previously Export Qualität designation was added in the mid 1950s.

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Y'know, sometimes I wonder why I post.
 

jonesy86

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Basic linen Newsboy from B!Wear Cap Company, with a Thai Batik cloth face mask on the Masked Corona Crawl today. Lots of folks filling up the pickup truck heading out for a big weekend. Me...I just walk down the hill, turn left along the coastal trail to Keália Beach, swim out past the surfers, and float over the swell.
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jonesy86

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I didn’t know you had a B!Ware cap. Brett is an interesting guy, and I really like his caps and his prices. I need to order another.
I picked up a very nice vintage wool herringbone 8 panel cap from B!Wear a couple of years ago that I really liked, but didn’t bring to the island. I just received this fuller body, larger brim linen hat today. I’m hoping that he can source some hemp straw for my next cap. His work is quite good, and his prices are very reasonable.
 
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I picked up a very nice vintage wool herringbone 8 panel cap from B!Wear a couple of years ago that I really liked, but didn’t bring to the island. I just received this fuller body, larger brim linen hat today. I’m hoping that he can source some hemp straw for my next cap. His work is quite good, and his prices are very reasonable.


You motivated me. I just sent Brett an email and ordered a linen cap. We are forecasted to hit 110 degrees this coming week, and a light airy linen cap sounds like just the ticket.

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That reminds me a lot of my Dobbs Fifth Avenue that I refurbished. Same brim edge, same color combo. The felt on mine is very nice and soft too. This Dobbs came to me two sizes too small and was in pretty rough shape. I was able to reblock it to a 7 1/4. The original ribbon was too small to reuse after the reblocking and it was pretty faded and stained anyway. I found another ribbon and bow from a Stratton uniform hat that matched the color of my Dobbs perfectly. I had to rework the bow and I gave it a slight upswoop...

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Great job as usual, Terry. You made a tired hat look like new.

Thanks for the info Stefan.. I figured you might chime in on it. Will make note of it.
I feel like Hermione whenever I do this (as Snape would say: "Tell me, are you incapable of restraining yourself, or do you take pride in being an insufferable know-it-all?";)).
 
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Open weave straw to see Four F-16s flyover above our house on their way to the hospital about a half mile away for Salute to America’s Heroes

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Convenient: you could see the planes through the brim!
Two hat day. The 2020 debut of the Peters Bros. Milan "Tankersley #2.". This one was originally owned by Moonie, but I talked him out of it.

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That is a massive crown on that hat. Jim. A stovepipe straw!

Knox Twenty today
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That rain Bob was looking for today seems to have wandered north of the state line. We are up over an inch now and had a tornado warning about 5 miles away. I seem to have dumped a bunch of quotes I had lined up, somehow.

Thanks all,
Michael
It's a Knox Twenty, what's not to like?
Day 23 of 31 Hat Parade: Sunny morning in Oregon, unusual for Memorial Day, usually gray and rainy. Patty and I took a nature walk at the Talking Waters park in Albany. One of the finest weaves I have come across, Mike Miller turned this one into something special. Classified as a Semi-Colado (open weave on crown) Cuenca Straw in Grade 8. Grading of straws from Ecuador is varied, this one is just superb though. Tight weave on the brim and a unique pattern on the crown. Air conditioning...

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Nice and airy. Mike Miller did it justice.

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No. Wait. An Adam Majestic!
Even better!
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Have a super Memorial Day weekend!
Wonderful, Randall. Killer ribbon.
 
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This week I will feature Echter Borsalino Hats which were made for the German Market. The hats will be from the late 1920s up to the 1950s.

Echter Borsalino Export Qualität "Cescosca" "Palladio", date stamped 3/19/59. The "Palladio" Felt color is fantastic. As usual very pliable Felt with great hand. The Form is very nice as you can see from the photos. As mentioned previously Export Qualität designation was added in the mid 1950s.

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Another superb example, Steve. Superlative craftsmanship.

Lovely shape and colour, Max. Looks like a perfect versatile hat.
 

Daniele Tanto

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(it's like playing football against them; it's never over.;) That real football you guys.)
It was many years ago, thinking of a foregone conclusion, after a few minutes I took the bus to go on a love date. I went down immediately because the transitor radios crackled important developments in the final. I stopped in front of a television in the window of an appliance store to find out the epilogue. I arrived late, but transgression was a must ;)
 

Short Balding Guy

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Morning dog soiree in a Stetson. This mode edged "Royal" quality hat is a delicious clay like felt. I make a side dent and the felt lays over and to my eye threatens to spill over the crown shape, like a basaltic lava flow. I am spending words to say I really like the clay-like quality.

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Back home for a cup of morning coffee. Mornings are excellent!

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Cheers. Be safe, be strong and see you on the streets soon, Eric -
 

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