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Optimo Chicago Superfino Montecristi Plantation. Grade 24, twelve rings.

drmaxtejeda

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Hi! The following is copy-pasted from the eBay listing. I listed it there for $3500, with a $3000 minimum offer.
I would accept $2700 here.
https://ebay.io/m/nftGUN

This is a Paja Toquilla Montecristi Panama of Optimo Chicago's fabled Straw Room quality. Their best Montecristis are kept behind glass doors at the back of the showroom. There's an image of it at the end.
Size 7 3/8, with a 3 inch brim and a 1 1/4 inch Optimo NOS vintage ribbon.
I purchased this hat in April 2024, six months before my health troubles started, for $3500 dollars from a gentleman who had bought it in Optimo several years before for five thousand.
I don't know how much this hat would cost in the Optimo store nowadays, but I do know their prices are twice as high now as they were when I bought my first Silverbelly there in 2019.
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Judgmentalist

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Hi! The following is copy-pasted from the eBay listing. I listed it there for $3500, with a $3000 minimum offer.
I would accept $2700 here.
https://ebay.io/m/nftGUN

This is a Paja Toquilla Montecristi Panama of Optimo Chicago's fabled Straw Room quality. Their best Montecristis are kept behind glass doors at the back of the showroom. There's an image of it at the end.
Size 7 3/8, with a 3 inch brim and a 1 1/4 inch Optimo NOS vintage ribbon.
I purchased this hat in April 2024, six months before my health troubles started, for $3500 dollars from a gentleman who had bought it in Optimo several years before for five thousand.
I don't know how much this hat would cost in the Optimo store nowadays, but I do know their prices are twice as high now as they were when I bought my first Silverbelly there in 2019. View attachment 800071 View attachment 800072 View attachment 800073 View attachment 800074 View attachment 800075 View attachment 800076 View attachment 800077 View attachment 800078 View attachment 800079

I know this one well from stalking your Instagram lol.

This is a very pretty, very well made Montecristi with excellent color, even weave and good weave fineness/grade/WPI. Edit: very cool ribbon also.
 
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