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Pantke-Harpke Milwaukee's Hatter a trip back over 100 years.

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I'll be posting alot of ads chronologically--wait to comment until after i have posted them--thank you.
 
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Thanks for that great trip down memory lane... pins that odd 7X to sometime between Lincoln and Nixon. Clearly they were a full service shop capable of doing the ventilation holes. Turning up the mode edge to a homburg curl seems tricky to me, but they probably did that too, I expect.
 

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Awesome job RLK! I walk by all of those old locations on my lunch walks.

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Just received this fine hat, did a title search, and thought I'd dust off this thread.

After a quick brush/bash:
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Just my bean shape, Extra Long Oval.
And (sometimes) size!
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Like an overwelt, but with barely visible stitches on top of the brim, and none on the underside:
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Felt quality is quite nice on this one: easy to manipulate, but not too stiff and thick. A side-by-side comparison with my brown Borsalino Torino leaves me wondering which, if either, is the better hat. [huh]

Thanks for looking. (Where else would I share my hat-thusiasm?) :)
 
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