Stetson Sweat Stamps/ LOT **XX

[splintercellsz]

1920's Stetson No.1 Quality / LOT 6813

 

[alanfgag]

Excellent - thank you! This hat is earlier than the No.1s I've posted. It was sold from the same store as the Clear Nutria Quality posted recently.

I've added your original sweatband markings below.

 

[danofarlington]

I still think a seance calling up former Stetson executives and employees is the ideal way to go to date old Stetson hats and discover the true meaning of the Xs.

 

[alanfgag]

I still think a seance calling up former Stetson executives and employees is the ideal way to go to date old Stetson hats and discover the true meaning of the Xs.

For sweatband lot **XXs we'll have to hunt down an executive who worked prior to 1940.

 

[alanfgag]

Looking back at the No.1s of Jeff and Buler, both from LOT7686 and with the newer (c.1940) single panel manufacturing tag, it seems that the transition from three panel to single panel tag happened around LOT76XX. My Standard Quality also shows a 76XX number and new tag, where this tiny No.1, LOT7527 has the last version of the three panel tag.

Now we just need a rosetta stone hat with a date marked in it somewhere...

 

[carouselvic]

Many Glacier 1928...Glacier Park Hotel Company

Lot #5167 (the one may be a zero)

 

[alanfgag]

That's one heck of a rosetta stone... now how long did that hat sit before the paint job?

Thanks, Victor.

 

[alanfgag]

Lot 7600 - Stetson Clear Nutria c. 1940

New style manufacturing label starts between LOT 7500-7600... in an ordered universe, anyway.

 

[rlk]

Stetson 1900 Paris Medal Velour LOT5639

 

[rlk]

Same 2 81 as the No.1 Quality Twins

I think that's LOT 7686

 

[rlk]

Stetson 1900 Medal Featherweight Brown Derby LOT1167

Note STIFF and SOFT consistently on band near LOT#

 

[alanfgag]

Thank you for these additions Robert. Yes, stiff and soft - the 2 (sometimes 2 1/8, 2 1/4) corresponding to the sweat width, I think. Scalloped size tag and low LOT number as on the Stetson Star on page 1 of the thread.

 

[rlk]

Uh oh! Fray LOT8042

Fuzzy 1900 Expo Medal Fray

unless they started over after 9999

 

[alanfgag]

:eeek:

I could learn to like that theory. Would seem unlikely that the big bang began in 1910... there were a lot of hats under the bridge at Stetson by then. And I have never seen a 5 digit LOT number. (I'm afraid you are going to come up with that one next.)

Don't remember this Stetson... it looks like an old one.

 

[rlk]

Standard Quality LOT7452

More conforming

 

[rlk]

Fuzzy Stetson 3X Beaver Dress LOT5765

I'll dig for more when there is light.

 

[alanfgag]

:eusa_clap Excellent additions - thank you.

 

[mikespens]

I'll dig for more when there is light.

I wondered where they all came from, he has a hat mine.

 

[carouselvic]

#1 LT. BELLY Lot #7534

 

[splintercellsz]

1940s Stetson Special Homburg.

Looks like it is: LOT 7540