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Two Tone / Duplex hats popular in 1915

buler

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It seems they tried almost everything with hats before 1920. Including two tone felt hats and felt brims with straw crowns.

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The Wiser Hatter

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One the the straw hats in the 1936 Hat Life I posted was a felt brim and straw crown and was stated that it was a popular style for the time.
In a time when everyone was wearing a hat I can see where these Two Tone hats would be popular.
As Lefty posted Rocky Mountain Hat Company makes three styles of Two Tone hats in the same colors thou.
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Rocky Mountain Hat company

There are some nice color combo's in the ad's. Any other Hatter making this type of hat today.
 
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The panama crown is placed over the felt body that extends upwards from the flange a little to accept the seam. It is finished quite nicely.

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You can also see what I believe is a Sizor adjustment ribbon. I'd have to go back and look more carefully. Here is a 1938 ad for Dunlap/Knox with more info.

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ScottF

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Vintage Dunlap duplex hat. Era unknown - perhaps WWII or earlier.

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If that is the one I 'first' owned, and sold about 2-3 years ago, relevant information is posted somewhere in the forum, along with the approximate age.
 
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Yes Scott... it is the one you sold. More photos and details posted in this thread.

On dating, I seem to remember you thinking the hat as earlier than I believe it is. My guess is somewhere in the range from 1938 and 1945, based on the Sizor patent and on the manufacturing tag, which appears to be a 1940s HCA variant.
 
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Does a Milan and Paja Toquilla combination count?

I always drool in this thread...

This unusual lid (THANK YOU, Strapped4cache!!) is a dual straw material example from Knox. The crown is a Panama weave, and the brim is a braided wheat Milan.

I need to spend some time on this hat; a worthwhile project!


A peek at the seam...




 

ScottF

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Yes Scott... it is the one you sold. More photos and details posted in this thread.

On dating, I seem to remember you thinking the hat as earlier than I believe it is. My guess is somewhere in the range from 1938 and 1945, based on the Sizor patent and on the manufacturing tag, which appears to be a 1940s HCA variant.

That's not the thread I was referring to, but thanks. My dating was based on the advertising for the hat, but I guess it's possible that the advertising came out before the patent.
 
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Scott, did you have an ad showing the Dunlap brand duplex? I believe that Knox acquired Dunlap in 1919 which would have been a little after the Knox ads shown in the opening posts to this thread.
 

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