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  1. Naphtali

    Difference(s) between Montana crown western and 1911 Campaign hat

    Here are images that I should have posted with my query. Apparently, the front of Fonda's hat looks like Campaign hat but sides and rear are different? Is the crown also taller?
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    Difference(s) between Montana crown western and 1911 Campaign hat

    For the first time in a generation, I watched the 1946 motion picture "My Darling Clementine". Henry Fonda portrays Wyatt Earp, wearing a western hat with Montana crown. I estimate the hat's nearly flat brim as 3.5-4 inches per side. My Campaign hat also has a somewhat more sharply defined...
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    Campaign hat's crown?

    Has anyone rendered the crown of a standard three-inch brim campaign hat into a western/cowboy crown or any crown other than its standard form? My own rather beaten up campaign hat has its crown stretched and pointed to strongly resemble that earlier higher crown hat shown in many photographs of...
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    More than a wind or rodeo strap?

    Okay, I confirmed that my Campaign hat doesn't have enough crown to render it anything more than a army-style Montana Peak. I've identified a couple of used Western hats that are satisfactory - except for a couple of details. I especially appreciate chin strap slots and grommeted ventilation...
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    Shaping a fedora?

    I acquired another Campaign Hat. Has anyone reshaped its stunted Montana crown to either more of a teardrop fedora shape or, perhaps, in more of a western crown? Because I had so much aggravation maximizing a peak, I question whether there is enough felt in crown for serious reshaping. I won't...
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    Homburg into fedora/fedora into homburg?

    Replies and photographs have furnished precisely what I needed. It is a fedora. And yes, I bought it as a fedora. Many thanks.
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    Homburg into fedora/fedora into homburg?

    I bought a Dobbs Twenty with 2.5-inch brim with Cavanaugh rolled edge and slotted crown. To my untutored eye it looks to be a homburg as it sits. But it also appears to become a fedora with snap brim as I choose. The only obvious difference I can discern between it an my Borsalino fedoras is...
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    HUNDREDS DIE IN HUGE EARTHQUAKE

    Moderator, this sub-forum appears to be the least inappropriate location for my query. If you must,delete it. *** In 1989 a friend and I were in the parking lot of Jack's Pizza in San José, California. We were to meet other friends to munch, drink, and watch the first game of the World Series...
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    Morse Code

    While I believe only the U.S. Navy currently uses Morse Code, during World War II its use was ubiquitous. During my intermittent attempts to learn code, I butt against my inability to differentiate one letter/numeral from another. How are individual letter/numerals differentiated, particularly...
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    Borsalino Quality

    Oops. You are right, and I am . . . er . . . uh . . . less than right. Lance *** So now identifying and contacting a hat restoring facility or person if one-man shop, becomes mandatory. I want to restore my Borsalinos, regardless of their present condition, to as close to new as can occur.
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    Borsalino Quality

    Okay, I've stumbled into a partial answer to my question, and that answer makes my follow-up more important for me. Why is this hat my favorite? I have four Borsalinos and don't particularly appreciate one of them. Why? Wandering the auctions of eBay Borsalino fedoras, I noticed that I didn't...
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    Borsalino Quality

    I am aware of hat fur felt quality being identified with "Xs." While this may have originated with Stetson and, apparently, has metamorphosed to advertising hyperbole, it's not part of my query. Borsalino fedoras are the only non-outdoor hats I own. And I bought them more than 15 years ago...
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    #s 1-10 in the movies in each year from 1 January 1935 through 31 December 1943

    This question began forming while watching my DVA of 1938's "The Adventures of Robin Hood." Among its commentary was that Errol Flynn became Warner Brothers' top star. But what does that mean? - Flynn's movies were selling the most tickets of all the studio's star players? - Flynn's movies were...
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    Hat Cleaning and Repair Questions

    My home is about 85 miles from Missoula, 120 miles from Kalispell, and 120 miles from Helena, all of which are in western Montana. I have a gray Borsalino hat whose sweat band threads are disintegrating, plus a large dark spot on underside rear of brim that I think to have been rubbed off one of...
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    Did knickerbockers serve a purpose in Great Britain?

    I have been viewing several pre-World War II and wartime British motion pictures that were consistent with their period of creation. Knickerbocker pants are worn by a surprisingly large number of men. While most instances occur among those pursuing sport, some urban men who are not at work are...

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