This EXCELLENT Early 1950s Vintage Stetson Stratoliner - Playboy - Light Gray, Beaver Fifteen, size 7-1/4. This is a REAL LOOKER! This is certainly going to be a conversation piece! You can see in the pictures this fedora is excellent! We filled the picture gallery so you can see every detail! Nothing to hide on this great hat!

 Dad and grandson worked together and just steamed and shaped it, as you see in the pictures now. 

This is quite a unique hat to find! The combination of the Stratoliner bound brim edge and that 3/4 inch black grosgrain ribbon makes this a very rare fedora! It’s beautiful!

NOTE: the box is NOT included with this hat. There were actually 3 hats inside this hat box and dad decided to keep the hat box. There are no hat holding insert set and the bottom is very weak. You can find these listed here on eBay though.

Pictures say much more about this great Stetson fedora! We took all angles and this is also part of the description. If you have any questions or need another particular photograph, please write to us. 

Even the grosgrain ribbon and bound brim edge is perfect! Very very clean and NO loose strings!

You can see that the liner has an early 1950s plastic overlay plastic overlay on it, the 1/4 size tag and with the liner design and the logo on the leather sweatband it was easy to date this to the early 1950s (1951-1953).

We took out dad’s collection of 1950s Beaver Stetsons: 3X, Ten, Fifteen, Twenty and TwentyFive. This best matched the Fifteen. It’s just very soft and thick and so easy to shape! When actually steaming and shaping any hat it’s so much easier to determine beaver rating! This is definitely a Beaver 15. Just by touching and shaping it, it was so easily determined. 

If you have any questions please write us.

Ok now the particulars
The size actually measures to a perfect size 7-1/4 at 22-3/4 inches.

These original vintage Stetson can be stretched to a size larger so a perfect 7-3/8 would be something that could be done, NOT ANY LARGER, it just takes time and patience and any inexpensive $14 Amazon stretcher would work fine.

 We use the Tilley hat size chart. This chart is still in use today.

Color is Light Medium Gray The picture of the whole underside is the best representation of the actual color of this great fedora.

Size 7-1/4 or 22-3/4 inches or 58

Length 13 inches

Width 11.6 inches

Height 5.2 inches, at the highest point 

Wide Brim width 2.45 inches

Black Grosgrain ribbon 3/4 of an inch


THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL HAT! Everyone will turn heads for this hat!

We Carefully packaged and ships though Fedex.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. 


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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.  We stand behind the eBay garentee and have NEVER had and issue with returns. We ask you to verify your hat size before you buy and we supply the maximum amount of pictures but if you need anything please write and ask.   No Smoking - No PetsThank You