Matt, Steve and Mike, thanks for the comments. I've been shopping for hats today and I found some that will interest you for sure. Have to take a mountain of dust off them first and give them a steaming, but there are some good ones there.
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Great looking Homburg in a unique color. It's from the same time period as the Mayser directly below.I really should post the first hat of the hathunting spree here as well (if only to prevent this thread falling off of the first page
Echter Mayser Spezial homburg in grey, size 59 (Daniele Tanto asked me to bring this one along), 5,5 cm brim and 10,5 cm crown at the pinch. Nice midgrey colour with a lighter grey ribbon and brim binding. Apart from some wrinkles in the ribbon as good as new. Hettlage und Lampe was a haberdashery in Kiel. I believe the hat dates from the late fifties to mid-sixties.
Really sharp looking Spezial. Very nice color and form.
Super find! The heather brown color and form is great. It's interesting that the paper label has size 58 and the individual size label is 56. The paper label is similar to Mayser Ulm (see link below). I assume "Melé " is similar to mêlé / mélange (mixed / blend) which matches the felt but the size is wrong. Also the tip patch is in English while the sweatband is in English. I wonder if it was modified along the way?
Yes I am very pleased to see this beautiful hat! Everything about it is fantastic. People today would call it a Homburg or Homburg like but this is a great example of a hat you don't see post WWII. My guess is that it's from the early 1930s or later 1920s. Earlier JHS hats have paper labels that look similar to this one but I am not sure when (my guess is sometime in the 1920s) the transition took place to the later paper label.
Steve, thanks for the comments and for the extra information. I will attribute the Rein Haar to Mayser Ulm based on the label. The hat doesn't seem to be modified, but maybe the orginal label was wrong and the 56 size sticker was added later to correct it. It happens more often, because the Tirard I posted in the Homburg Nation thread has the same situation: there are two size stickers in that one too.Great looking Homburg in a unique color. It's from the same time period as the Mayser directly below.
Really sharp looking Spezial. Very nice color and form.
Super find! The heather brown color and form is great. It's interesting that the paper label has size 58 and the individual size label is 56. The paper label is similar to Mayser Ulm (see link below). I assume "Melé " is similar to mêlé / mélange (mixed / blend) which matches the felt but the size is wrong. Also the tip patch is in English while the sweatband is in English. I wonder if it was modified along the way?
http://germanaustrianhats.invisionzone.com/index.php?/topic/3-mayser-hutfabrik/page-5#entry804
Yes I am very pleased to see this beautiful hat! Everything about it is fantastic. People today would call it a Homburg or Homburg like but this is a great example of a hat you don't see post WWII. My guess is that it's from the early 1930s or later 1920s. Earlier JHS hats have paper labels that look similar to this one but I am not sure when (my guess is sometime in the 1920s) the transition took place to the later paper label.
It's possible your JHS "Standard" is Point 5 / 57cm. JHS paper labels that have Point and CM sizes the CM size is always one less than expected.
This one is strange because nothing other than (might not be) the paper label points to Mayser Ulm. Regardless it's a great hat.
Beautiful hat as usual. I find it interesting that it has the lines of a Homburg without the binding on the brim. Is this the "nexus" of what we call a Lord's Hat (an American term(?).
