HAT ADORNMENTS: ribbons, bows, pins, pugs, leather, etc.

[chivaceae]

I just saw this thread, and I like it. I am a big sucker for leather, sterling silver buckles and pins, etc.
So naturally, a few of my "refurbished" (resized, with cordovan shell leather piece added to sweatband, brims cut to 3"-3 1/4" and crowns reshaped) western hats are getting leather hatbands with silverware.
Here I share some examples.
Raul

 

[Hurricane Jack]

I understand but would gladly have paid that anyway.....even with those crap shipping charges.
That would undoubtedly been for a GAR event......really cool!
Darn.....

Me too!

It’s a slouch hat pin from the 34th Annual National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic held on August 26-30, 1900 in Chicago, IL. Worth a minimum of $500. Damn is right!

 

[Who?]

Just out of vulgar curiosity, why did you cut the brims?

 

[chivaceae]

Just out of vulgar curiosity, why did you cut the brims?

3" to 3 1/4" is my preferred brim width, similar to my preference for broad-pinched fedora-like crowns (the classical rancher creases with wide brims don't suit me well). The brim trimming and addition of broad hatbands in some of my hats has also been a necessity, to cover moth damage and damaged brim edges (my refurbished hats are often beaters, requiring cleaning, naphta bathing, trimming, etc, yet I strive to keep original sweatbands and liners).
Raul

 

[Who?]

3" to 3 1/4" is my preferred brim width, similar to my preference for broad-pinched fedora-like crowns (the classical rancher creases with wide brims don't suit me well). The brim trimming and addition of broad hatbands in some of my hats has also been a necessity, to cove moth damage and damaged brim edges (my refurbished hats are often beaters, requiring cleaning, naphta bathing, trimming, etc, yet I strive to keep original sweatbands and liners).
Raul

Thank you.

Just curious, as I said.

 

[BobHufford]

Me too!

It’s a slouch hat pin from the 34th Annual National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic held on August 26-30, 1900 in Chicago, IL. Worth a minimum of $500. Damn is right!

I should have checked in. Searching for "GAR Hat Pin" kicked up a slew of the "wreath" pins, but not anything like this. Dammit.

I'm just going to pretend the "other guy" bid $500 ...

 

[M Hatman]

I'm just going to pretend the "other guy" bid $500 ...

That is what I do in these circumstances......

 

[Hurricane Jack]

I should have checked in. Searching for "GAR Hat Pin" kicked up a slew of the "wreath" pins, but not anything like this. Dammit.

I'm just going to pretend the "other guy" bid $500 ...

Most of those wreath pins are repos. From ~1900 to WWI really, was the time of lots of Civil War encampments & reunions, & the time of the Daughters of the GAR, & the UDC. Any encampment artifacts start at $500. There is a smaller GAR eagle on an encampment ribbon. If the ribbon is original & still attached they can bring $750.

 

[BobHufford]

No website — here is her contact info:

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I saw Lyn at a craft show recently and she had this leather-backed band that came home with me. She didn't have any ties on it, so this shoelace and a rock are doing the job until I can get a leather strip.

 

[BobHufford]

Stetson Mission Sunday School pin. Probably from early in the last century based on the style, but who knows?

Based on the size it was most likely a lapel pin.

Made by Whitehead & Hoag of Newark, New Jersey. Incorporated in 1892. Sold in 1959 and closed in 1965.

Seemed appropriate to put in on my 1930s Stetson Special Homburg. The pin is just slipped behind the ribbon and is a tight fit. No visible holes anyway.

More details on the Sunday School itself here:

https://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/stetson-stuff.35338/page-32#post-3021000