Can you identify my grandfather's hat?

[PapaSimone]

Can any of the experts here identify my grandfather's hat in this photo?
Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Samsa]

I'm not one of the "experts," but a rough date as to when the photo was taken would no doubt help to some extent...

 

[J.B.]

I'm not one of the "experts,"...

Double-Ditto here!

...Still... IMHO, the suave look of the hat AND the wearer sure remind me of the old Crofutt & Knapp ads...?! [huh]

From WordNet...

suave

adjective
1. having a sophisticated charm; "a debonair gentleman" [syn: debonair]
2. smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication

 

[AlanC]

Great photo.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

I can't identify the hat per se, but I can tell you when it was made: sometime between the late 1920s and the mid 1930s.

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[Baron Kurtz]

Can any of the experts here identify my grandfather's hat in this photo?

impossible . . . unless, for example, you know which town it was bought in, and know, let's say, that only Stetsons were sold in that town.

Barring that caveat - Impossible.

bk

 

[PapaSimone]

Thanks for the replies. The hat was most likely bought in Des Moines Iowa in the 30's. At least one of his other hats is stetson but I know that doesn't necessarily mean this one is. Can the bash be identified?

 

[Orgetorix]

Can the bash be identified?

Looks like a center-dent to me.

 

[RBH]

Looks like a center-dent to me.

With very little front pinch...


Nice looking hat by the way!

 

[deanglen]

Dittos to what RBH says. Beautiful picture of a hat and its wearer matched!

dean

 

[nulty]

I couldn't say who made the hat. I can say that is a fantastic photograph. How wonderful that it survives and you can enjoy it.....

 

[Warlock]

That is one exceptional photo of a man I suspect was also exceptional. I hope I leave one photo that good for my children. And it is a nice hat.

 

[johnnycanuck]

Looks like this hat
http://www.millerhats.com/dobbs.htm
"Dutton Hat"

If you are looking to buy one for yourself I am sure Art can hook you up.

Johnny

 

[Snrbfshn]

Just a guess...

It looks similar to my '30s Stetson Melrose. Bash is different, but much else the same - raw edge, quite wide ribbon, high crown, no taper:
http://new.photos.yahoo.com/jtban1/album/576460762329106627

 

[Dinerman]

That melrose is a pretty cool looking hat. The sweatband's been replaced, hasn't it?

 

[mingoslim]

As to indentifying hats . . .

fftopic: I was watching the Coen Brother's movie "Barton Fink" last night, and I found myself trying to identify the hats that various characters were wearing . . . Anyone else find themselves trying to do the same?

I am pretty sure that John Goodman's character was wearing a Playboy or Playboyesque clone . . . and I think that Turturro's character was sporting a Whippet in an early scene . . . and one Detective is wearing a hat that I am pretty sure is waaaaaay off for a movie set in 1941.fftopic:

 

[PapaSimone]

The Melrose does look like it.
Here is a pic of him without a hat (all the way to the left) with Winston Churchill and Truman right after the iron curtain speech. Can Churchill's or Truman's hat be i.d.ed?

 

[Joel Tunnah]

I love how Truman was a brim-up guy. As was Roosevelt. :eusa_clap

Churchill wore Homburgs I believe.

 

[Orgetorix]

Seems I remember reading that Churchill shopped at Lock & Co., but I could be wrong.