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Lt.hats

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Yes that is a HAT!
alterie.png

Wow, I want one! I wonder what the dimensions are on that crown and brim. I bet it cost a pretty penny even back in the 1930's.
 

Joao Encarnado

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Wow, I want one! I wonder what the dimensions are on that crown and brim. I bet it cost a pretty penny even back in the 1930's.
It probably was a expensive hat due to the dimensions of it.
I think no one can make a felt so big. I can only speculate it would have a 10" crown with a 6" or 7" brim.
 

ChicagoWayVito

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I think no one can make a felt so big.QUOTE]

Pretty sure that current hat body felters would just need an updated cone to accommodate the extra felt needed for when the blow the felt in. But yeah it would be hard to get as the felt will shrink by up to 60% during the process. With the right tools it could probably be done with a flat piece of felt that has been made through dry felting processes and not the wet process. However my concern with dry felt would be the strength and stability without another type of binder being added.
 
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Yes that is a HAT!
alterie.png
I'm wondering if he wasn't a Wild West show performer late in the era, or some other kind of performer. That is obviously a brand above his shirt pocket & snaps on the pocket flaps but I can't tell it that is some sort of detail on the sleeve or damage to the picture. He's reading something from a paper. Perhaps he was a cowboy on a serial radio show.
 

Joao Encarnado

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Pretty sure that current hat body felters would just need an updated cone to accommodate the extra felt needed for when the blow the felt in. But yeah it would be hard to get as the felt will shrink by up to 60% during the process. With the right tools it could probably be done with a flat piece of felt that has been made through dry felting processes and not the wet process. However my concern with dry felt would be the strength and stability without another type of binder being added.
Probably.
But then if no one tries, no one will ever know.
I would be a person to try it if I had the tools to do it.
 

ChicagoWayVito

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I'm wondering if he wasn't a Wild West show performer late in the era, or some other kind of performer. That is obviously a brand above his shirt pocket & snaps on the pocket flaps but I can't tell it that is some sort of detail on the sleeve or damage to the picture. He's reading something from a paper. Perhaps he was a cowboy on a serial radio show.

It looks like Louis "Diamond Jack" Alterie, at least when compared to the photo that Buler posted. In any case if it is him he was a rancher and a gangster. Also known as Louis "Two Gun" Alterie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Alterie
 

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