Recent content by BanjoMerlin

Nice hat. In 1955 a Stetson 7X Beaver sold for $50. Since Davidson's is still there, they celebrated their 100th anniversary this year and still family owned, you might contact them and see if anyone there can give you a time frame when they used that logo.

I don't have the link anymore... There was a "Whippet" up that ended last week. When the seller listed it there was only one photo of the outside and size not clear but probably around 7 1/8. I watched it anyway. Checked again on the last day and photos had been added showing the "Whippet" logo...

OH NO!!! The world is not supposed to end until 2012, could it be happening sooner???

My stretcher is marked 7. It is 6 inches wide - same as my head. I use it because I have a 7 3/16 LO head. It is the correct width and is more than long enough extended.

As the business is for sale he probably doesn't want to invest time or money on improving the website.

I agree with this conclusion. Stetson also reused the "Eagle" name. They had an "Eagle" in the early 1940s and then again in the early 1960s. The 60s model wasn't a re-issue, they just dredged up an old name and dusted it off for use on a new hat. Stetson has had so many models over the...

He's only around 50 years off on age. A lot more on price. Anybody want to buy one of LBJ's Resistol hats? I don't have the paperwork on it but somebody told me he was told somebody said they were told it belonged to LBJ.

One would wear a dark colored straw whenever a dark colored felt hat would be appropriate if it wasn't so d(*&n HOT! If you don't have a dark colored straw you would wear your dark colored lightweight felt. A funeral comes to mind. And at night if you don't want to be the sniper's primary...

I don't have enough space on my hard drive.

Actually, demand is only one part of the equation. Prices are lowest where supply exceeds demand and highest where demand exceeds supply. For whatever reason there are a lot of smaller-sized hats available but only a few of the larger sizes. Guys who wear the smaller sizes soon learn they don't...

Oh yeah, size definately matters. 7 and smaller go for bargain basement prices compared to 7 1/2 and bigger. 7 1/8, 7 1/4, 7 3/8 are the "maybe" sizes.

Watched Knute Rockne All American again this morning. A lot of great hats (many late 30s styles) but not much attention paid to period correctness.

I think the contemporary films are the best for fedoras. You get more of a look at the hats men actually wore and how they wore them. There are some great scenes in Pickup on Second Street. A man walks into a woman's apartment, takes his hat off, looks around for a place to put it and...

I'm another who wears a hat every day. I'm very rarely outside without a hat.

Some of my western hats can be shaped with cold water, some of them cannot. It depends on how much stiffener/water-proofing stuff is on them. If you can use the hat as a step stool you're probably gonna need some steam.