Rick Blaine
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Detailed here: Optimo Cowboy Conversion
Optimo's Mitchum
A lovely soft Stetson 25, 195o's I'm guessing. It is a soft & supple dress felt w/o H2o stains or insect activity.
Mr. Thompson retained the liner & replaced the sweat w/ a very soft russet colored roan glove leather, added the contrasting vintage grosgrain around the crown & matching on the bound the brim.
I have not worn this hat. It has been in the box, six years, since Graham sent it back to me. It is as "new" as a sixty plus year old hat gets.
It is a Grand hat & it REALLY belongs to someone who will WEAR it!
Since then, I have zeroed in on my style, and this doesn't go, it grieves me to say. This is (now) a cosmopolitan hat & I am more of a rustic, provincial.
I could make $$$ for eBay & PP. But I would like to keep this one "in the community", as it were. I have an admittedly odd attachment for some reason.
I would like to trade (& only trade) it for a very specific & keenly felt number of deficits in my collection.
To wit; VG - EX condition (as is the above), sizes 7 3/8 - 7 1/2 w/ brims 2 3/8"-3" of the following:
Stetson Vita-Felt, thin ribbon
Stetson Nutria, thin ribbon
Stetson clear beaver/7x thin ribbon
Vintage Whippet
A Bantam, Zephyr, "Hank-a-chief", or featherweight. Any maker.
...and naturally -Stetson OR/Strat style 50 or 100.
More photos pending.
I know this may be a stretch, but there ya' have it. [huh]
Gimmie a holler if this is of interest.
Thanks
Optimo's Mitchum
A lovely soft Stetson 25, 195o's I'm guessing. It is a soft & supple dress felt w/o H2o stains or insect activity.
Mr. Thompson retained the liner & replaced the sweat w/ a very soft russet colored roan glove leather, added the contrasting vintage grosgrain around the crown & matching on the bound the brim.
I have not worn this hat. It has been in the box, six years, since Graham sent it back to me. It is as "new" as a sixty plus year old hat gets.
It is a Grand hat & it REALLY belongs to someone who will WEAR it!
Since then, I have zeroed in on my style, and this doesn't go, it grieves me to say. This is (now) a cosmopolitan hat & I am more of a rustic, provincial.
I could make $$$ for eBay & PP. But I would like to keep this one "in the community", as it were. I have an admittedly odd attachment for some reason.
I would like to trade (& only trade) it for a very specific & keenly felt number of deficits in my collection.
To wit; VG - EX condition (as is the above), sizes 7 3/8 - 7 1/2 w/ brims 2 3/8"-3" of the following:
Stetson Vita-Felt, thin ribbon
Stetson Nutria, thin ribbon
Stetson clear beaver/7x thin ribbon
Vintage Whippet
A Bantam, Zephyr, "Hank-a-chief", or featherweight. Any maker.
...and naturally -Stetson OR/Strat style 50 or 100.
More photos pending.
I know this may be a stretch, but there ya' have it. [huh]
Gimmie a holler if this is of interest.
Thanks
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