Here is an EXCELLENT NEW with Tags Marathon Beaver Ten Brown Fedora, size 7-3/8 (read below). With that beautiful Stetson Stratoliner Bound Brim Edge and Stetson Playboy .9 inch grosgrain ribbon & original feather set.

We filled the picture gallery so you can see every detail! Nothing to hide on this OUTSTANDING NEW Vintage Marathon fedora. It may have been worn less than a handful of times but there are NO signs of that! It’s just such a beautiful Fedora that we find it hard to believe it was NEVER worn? See pictures. Leather sweatband is pristine! No moth bites, No stains. It’s perfect! Dad and grandson did a bit of steam shaping as a touch-up and cleaning with horsehair brush. 

It was easy to date this from between the very late 1950s (1959-1958) to 1960s sometime, because of that Logo on the liner and the plastic liner cover.

The leather sweatband is still completely attached, soft and pliable and still in PRISTINE Condition!

We don’t know why it doesn’t come out consistently in all the pictures? It’s all the same color- brown. The picture of the looking down from the top of the hat best reflects the actual color.

We took out dad’s collection of dad’s 1950s Stetson Beaver hats: 3X, 7X Clear Beaver, Ten, Fifteen, Twenty and TwentyFive. This best matches the Beaver Ten. This is very very soft and thick and so easy to work with. When you work on a hat, any felt hat, it’s is so easy to determine the material at that time. Depending on how it reacts and shapes and feels while working on it you get a very good idea what material you’re working with.

NOTE: This was found in that Marathon hat box but my grandson wants that box and bought it from dad. So No hat box but you can find these hat boxes listed here on eBay all the time.

There is a size tag stating 7-1/4 Long Oval but when we measured it it’s a fraction under a perfect 7-3/8 by 1/16 of an inch. Just wearing the hat will stretch it after just a short period. The Long Oval label on this hat indicates it slightly longer front to back and narrower on the side by a fraction of an inch. But with these older vintage hat that are NOT stiff but very pliable the hat will easily shape to any head shape. This could easily be stretched to over 7-3/8 by any inexpensive hat stretcher, ever the $14 Amazon hat stretcher would work perfectly. This can only be stretched to a 7-3/8++, about 23-1/4 inches would be the maximum dad says. So not quite to a size 7-1/2 (23-1/2 inches).

We actually measure the hat 3 times to determine the size, tagged or not, and it is and measures to a perfect size 7-3/8 at 23-1/16 inches, that’s about a 1/16 of an inch smaller than a perfect 7-3/8 and this agrees with the Tilley Hat Sizing chart.

It was really difficult to get a perfect measurement because it’s so darn close to a perfect 7-3/8, a perfect 7-3/8 is 23-1/8 inches.

This is a size -7-3/8 Or 23-1/1/6 inches or -59

We are measuring the length and width of the head hole so you can see how close to a regular oval it really is.

Head Hole (best measurement as possible) Length 8-1/4 inches / Width 6.5 inches

Length 12.95 inches

Width 11-1/8 inches

Height 4.6 inches, at the tallest point

Matching Grosgrain Ribbon 0.9 inches ( this is the width of Stetson’s vintage Playboy model fedora)

Wide Brim 2.2 inches, with that beautiful bound brim edge (same as the vintage Stetson Stratoliner bound edge)

Feather set, still in good condition, can be removed

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 OUTSTNDING Fedora hat!

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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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