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    unclevern's $1.99 hat collection

    Been saving these up for a while. I've discovered that the local Goodwill stores hold most hats in high disregard. Each of these lids cost $1.99 at the Goodwill--a few lower-end panamas, Resistols, Stetsons and a host of other cheapos. I'm a garden designer, and I spend most of my time outdoors...
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    The Whistle Special

    I was walking across a parking lot in Austin the other day when a skinny old Texan walked by wearing a very cool old cowboy hat, wide-brimmed and low-crowned, with a generous ribbon and a bound edge. I said "Nice hat ya' got there." He shot back "Ya' like it? Gimme ten bucks and it's yours." So...
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    Austin, Texas needs a real hat shop!

    How is it that a town as wealthy and trendy as Austin, Texas lacks a real hatter? There's Texas Hatters in Lockhart, but they're a 30-minute drive away and mostly western. There's an ol' boy over on the east side who works on hats, but he's a disaster. I would think that by now it would be an...
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    A True Working Cowboy Hat

    Many years ago, the most famous hatter in Austin, Texas was Manny Gammage, of Texas Hatters. He made hats for Jerry jeff, Willie and all the important local honchos. One day he received a letter from a man in Montana who asked him to make him a hat that would get him into a fight in every bar...
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    Bowler/Derby "The Edward"

    I picked up a bowler/derby yesterday, black, short crown, and very stiff. Nice tan leather sweat band. There's an oval, gold-embosed logo on the sweat marked "The Edward." I cannot read the lower section of the embossed oval, might be a "P" or an "R." Has anyone from the Lounge seen a...
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    Scratch finish hat?

    I saw an old Dobbs fedora today, with a light brown sweat and rolled brim maybe 27/8 inches wide, open crown (though it once had a block to it--you can see the outlinss,) with an unusual finish, somewhat coarse, bumpy and a tad fuzzy. Is this a scratch finish? The hat is a beautiful grey silver...
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    Mackey Hats

    Have any lounge members bought western hats from Mackey? They look great on their web site. I'm wondering about their quality. Thanks, Uncle Vern
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    Vintage Resistol Dress Western Hats-Conversion?

    The hat in the color photo is a vintage Resistol with a 3.4-inch brim and 5.5-inch crown at the rear, stitched-in brim, light brown sweat and red Resistol liner. The crown is the softest I've ever found in a western hat, and the brim is super-thin, and a bit stiffer than a dress hat. It might be...
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    Campaign Hats 65th Infantry Regiment Puerto Rico

    The 65th Infantry was a Puerto Rican regiment who fought with the United States Army towards the end of WW2. Great hats!
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    Fedora Alert In Austin, Texas

    If any of you members live in Austin, Texas, Uncommon Objects, on South Congress Ave. has several very high quality fedoras for sale, including a beautiful black Knox. All hats are in great condition. Seems like there's a Stetson fine-weave panama as well. All hats are 7 1/8. Some ol' boy must...
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    New Hat Models

    I'm no expert, but I've seen enough hats both live and on eBay to realize that hat companies like Stetson seem to have always restricted their model names to "good-guy" types, like John Wayne, or Tom Mix, or "Gus," from "Lonesome Dove." The only bad boy I've found with a hat named after him was...
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    Repairing A Hole In A Felt Fur Hat

    Does anyone know if it's possible to repair a small split in the crown crease of a felt fur hat? Thanks, uncle vern
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    Advice on Vintage Borsalino Open Road

    I've been watching this hat in a local antique shop, a vintage (very vintage, I think) Borsalino Open Road, silverbelly, with wind trolley, and a 2.5-inch brim. The hat is so soft and pliable that I could roll it up and stick it in my pocket. I can buy the hat for approx. 20 bucks. The hat...
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    Resistol Prices

    I just picked up a Resistol Western hat, silverbelly, with a 3-inch brim and a 5 1/4-inch crown. This is a nice hat, with a fairly soft, thin-bodied crown and brim for a western hat.The factory shipping label states that it's a "Fort Worth" model. It's stamped "Kaufman's, San Antonio, "BR," and...
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    Resistol questions

    Can anyone help me date a Resistol Stagecoach hat? The hat is Cocoa brown ("Canyon,") with 6-inch crown and 3.5 inch stitched brim. I have it in a "Gus" crease. It's a sweet hat, with a nice, soft crown, and the crown fur is silky and long-stranded. The liner is a very pale tan-bronze, and the...
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    Homburg in Disguise?

    A few days ago, I was browsing through a local antique store and came across a perfectly hideous hat--a grey gambler-style with a 3-inch pencil-roll brim and a circular telescpe crown, and sporting what appeared to be the plumage of an entire adult pheasant glued to the front of the crown, the...
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    Vintage Hats in the Texas Hill Country

    My wife and I were in Blanco, Texas yesterday, at Granberry's Antiques. For any of you who live close to the Hill Country, I saw the following: a Resistol Open Road-style hat, size 7.5, with a Nebraska Centennial head liner dating the hat at 1963, $25.00. A narrow-brimmed Dobbs, black, no size...
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    Stetson Open Raod Brim Sizes

    I just had an old Stetson Open Road worked over (boy, did they work it over--they used enough stiffener to turn it into an army helmet,) and I've been meaning to ask some of the experts here why the brim sizes of Open Roads seem to differ. This reworked hat that I'm wearing as I post, actually a...
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    To jamespowers regarding Stetson Age`

    You gave some advice about dating a Stetson that required some specific information about the Indian logo, the type of printing on the inside paper label and liner particulars. I just bought a Stetson Range on eBay from a lady in Oklahoma who stated that her dad's hats were older Stetsons. I'm...
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    Keith Hats

    I'm a new member. I just got a felt hat made by a company called Keith, and I'n hoping that someone can help with the Brand and its history. It seems to be modeled after the Stetson Open Road, if somewhat darker, since it has identical measurements and look, although it is much thicker and...

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