Anyone heard of the Kingsbury brand?

[yanito]

I just won a Kingsbury rabbit fur felt fedora (7 1/4, 1 3/4 brim) for $6.00 on eBay. I've never heard of this brand and google is coming up dry. Anyone wanna fill me in?

I will need to stretch this one to fit on my 7 3/8 LO head. Any suggestions on how to stretch this hat?

 

[yanito]

I guess no one knows anything. lol

 

[yanito]

In case anyone is following this thread. I found this old newspaper clipping from 1907 mentioning Kingsbury.

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn92070146/1907-10-19/ed-1/seq-5.pdf

And this one from 1904.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?n...UGYSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6fMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4896,513849

 

[Spats]

I haven't heard of them before now, either, but I've got my eye on one. [huh]