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What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

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J.C. Penney Marathon

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VoodooSan

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A fine summer straw by Knox, sold from Ryan English shops in Pennsylvania Station. The store was in business from the early days of the train station (completed in 1910) and closed in 1977, years after the original station was torn down. There is a nice piece on the shop and its focus on fitting the man on the move in the August 1919 issue of the American Hatter (available on Google Books).

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VERY handsome, AND with a history blurb! Thanks for sharing, Alan!
 

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TimmyV

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I got this beat up old hat off ebay a few days ago for 15.00.
First picture is what I saw in the ad. I saw a brand I hadn't heard of and I also spotted an unreeded sweatband which makes for a great feeling, fitting hat in my opinion. Once I put a little steam to it I think it now looks fairly presentable.
Coney Felt in a Slate Blue/Gray color.
* on some of my other hats there are stampings on the sweatband referring to imported Coney Fur and there is usually an image of a rabbit...so I gotta wonder if this felt is mostly rabbit. Feels good on my head so no big deal, just curious is all.
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VoodooSan

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Boise, ID
I got this beat up old hat off ebay a few days ago for 15.00.
First picture is what I saw in the ad. I saw a brand I hadn't heard of and I also spotted an unreeded sweatband which makes for a great feeling, fitting hat in my opinion. Once I put a little steam to it I think it now looks fairly presentable.
Coney Felt in a Slate Blue/Gray color.
* on some of my other hats there are stampings on the sweatband referring to imported Coney Fur and there is usually an image of a rabbit...so I gotta wonder if this felt is mostly rabbit. Feels good on my head so no big deal, just curious is all.
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That cleaned up VERY nicely, Timmy!
 
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I got this beat up old hat off ebay a few days ago for 15.00.
First picture is what I saw in the ad. I saw a brand I hadn't heard of and I also spotted an unreeded sweatband which makes for a great feeling, fitting hat in my opinion. Once I put a little steam to it I think it now looks fairly presentable.
Coney Felt in a Slate Blue/Gray color.
* on some of my other hats there are stampings on the sweatband referring to imported Coney Fur and there is usually an image of a rabbit...so I gotta wonder if this felt is mostly rabbit. Feels good on my head so no big deal, just curious is all.
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Great hat with a really nice color way. That liner is super cool! Be sure to add to the Lovely Liners thread.
 
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This hundred year old Mikado is a favorite from my collection of straw hats and perhaps the second most interesting thing to come out of Roswell, New Mexico. It was finished in high execution by the Frank H. Lee company sometime during the 1920s. Lee Hats was founded in 1887 and at its height employed 1500 workers in Danbury, CT. The brand became a part of Stetson Hats around 1960 and the Danbury factory was shuttered in 1964. Stetson's manufacturing plant in Philadelphia closed not long after.


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