This excellent 1950s Knox Classic Black WHIPPET Fedora, Beaver TWENTY, size 7-1/4. That outstanding wide Whippet bound brim edge is just beautiful!

You can see that we filled the picture gallery so you can see every detail on the perfect fedora! This is exactly how it came out of the hat box. This needed only cleaning with dad’s horsehair brush and some minor steam shaping.

We just reviewed the pictures. There is still lint on the hat. The white is lint or dust particles and they came off with a lint brush. It just started raining so we can’t edit the pictures now! See last picture for what it looks like when lint brush is used. Perfect!

It appears that this was bought and never worn? It may have been worn a few time and stored away.

You can easily date this hat because of that plastic liner cover and the Knox logo on the liner.

We don’t know why it doesn’t come out consistently in all the pictures? But it’s a black color on the whole hat and the best representation is the picture of the whole underside. The Grosgrain Ribbon is black. 

We took out dad 1950s Knox Beaver hats: 3X, 10X, Fifteen, Twenty and TwentyFive. The Twenty is the perfect match! This is a thicker, heavier Beaver material and This Twenty is so soft and thick and very easy to work with! Dad and grandson just used his horsehair brush to give it a bit of cleaning and just a bit of steam to tune up the shaping, after sitting in that box for so many years it just needed a slight tune-up. Perfectly shaped with that slight dip on the front brim. Just a great, very sharp looking fedora!

The oval hat box underneath the Knox box was what it was found in. Since it doesn’t match the hat dad is offering that late 1950s to early 1960s Knox hat box if you’d like to pay the extra for it? It’s a large hat box so it requires a larger shipping box to ship it in securely so it’s a bit more expensive than others we ship. You will need to write to us if like the hat box so we can edit the shipping and dimensions. Shipping and box totals $40.

NOTE SHIPPING OUTSIDE THE CONTINENTAL USA IS WITHOUT THE HAT BOX! It is to expensive.

There is a size tag that states 7-1/4 and this measure to a perfect 7-1/4 or 22-3/4 inches. This is just a fraction under a perfect 7-1/4. 

We actually measure the hat 3 times to determine the size, tagged or not, and it is and to a perfect 7-1/4 or 22-3/4 inches or 58which agrees with the Tilley Hat Sizing chart. 

This is a size 7-1/4 or 22-3/4 inches or 58

Length 12.5 inches

Width 11 inches

Height 4.9 inches, at the tallest point

Matching Black Grosgrain Ribbon 1.7 inches 

Brim 2.2 inches wide, it looks wider than it is because of the wide bound brim edge.

Dad has old dead stock Coat trolley strings that he will add to the hat. It will be a decoration but could easily be sewn to the hat by any decent tailor. You can see these still listed on his eBay listings. It will add $10 to the hat but you must write to us first. There are fully function and very elastic still. 

If you have any question please write. Dad seems to know quite a bit about this hat. It was one he bought and just stored away, like so many others.

Take a look at dads other great vintage hat he has listed, we try and list couple each week. If you have any additional information or corrections, please write us.

This is just a really great hat!

Local pickup is always free.

 Ship with Fedex or USPS priority mail, whichever arrives quickest. Both costs a couple dollars more but they are very reliable and they do not crush or damage boxes, also much faster shipping. I

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Dad has collected hats for a lifetime and there are 100s of them, on shelves, stacked in closets and spare bedrooms.

We are slowly listing these special hats weekly. 

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