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Stetson No. 1 Quality
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Wow, nice find Bob!
MikeinRome
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That's at least a 20's hat.
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The texture of the sweat, the black size tag, the crisp lines of the logo say 1920s to me
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Stetson Number 1 Quality. Has 4 inch bound brim and 6 inch open crown. It dates somewhere from mid 30's to about 1940 or so. There's no Lot Number in the sweatband.
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1940-1941 then with that style of red/white factory sticker? Great looking hat Mike.
Great googly moogly, Mike!!! What an AWESOME score!!!!
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I thought that the ‘40s era sticker was this (without the separate cells for Block, Depth, Finish).
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You're absolutely right, Bob. I forgot what I knew about these tags and spoke without refreshing my memory. I'll have to go back and delete that post. Thanks for catching that. I don't mind a bit dating that hat a little earlier! So looks like it dates from mid 30's to early 40's. I'm not convinced that every single early Stetson had a Lot Number in it.
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From my experience, Ive found more older stetsons in my limited experience WITHOUT lot number stamps, or stamps too weak to read. I pretty much gave up dating by lot stamps and just concentrate on what looks good to me. Someday when Ive got more money, maybe I can worry about that lol
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Of course in the context of my conversation, "older" Stetsons means about 1941 and earlier.
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Stetson Number 1 Quality. Has 4 1/2 inch bound brim. The open crown measures 6 1/2 inches but the mfg tag says the Depth is 7 inches, so hat seems to have a lot of shrinkage. Looks like there's a Lot Number that's too faint to read. I guess this is a 1930's hat. I think the Block Number is 406 on mfg tag.
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Stetson Number 1 Quality. Has 3 1/2 inch brim and open crown is 6 inches or a bit over. Lot Number 7686. This is a brand new, never worn hat given to the Mayor of Minneapolis, Marvin L Kline, as a birthday present from Gene Autry, who inscribed, signed, and dated it August 15, 1941. I bought it from a grandson of the Mayor. So this hat dates about 1940-41, assuming it hadn't sat around in the store too long. The hat crease appears to have come from the factory as shown here.
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Awesome hat is so many ways! Congrats Mike!
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Thanks, Bob. It's in a class of It's own in my collection.
That’s a beauty Mike — great find!
It’s also great to see an actual date associated with a lot #!
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Thanks. Yes, I was hoping there would be a Lot Number to go along with the date.
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Stetson Number 1 Quality with 3 1/4 inch brim and 6 inch open crown. The brim edge has 3/8 inch binding on the underside. "SOFT 8" is stamped twice around the Lot Number. I can't read the Lot Number but I suspect it's a mid to late 1930's hat. The hat cost $9.00 new.
