Here’s an EXCELLENT 1960s Resistol, BIG GUS a or Tom Mix cowboy hat, size 7-1/4, Mossy Brown, Beaver 15. This is the OLD vintage Beaver 15! Nothing like you find in todays or yesterdays hats! It’s so rare to find these original BR 15 hats anymore! 

NOTE Picture number 6 is the reworked crown, you can see how much better it looks now! Barely visible are the signs of the original cattleman shaping. If you have any questions please write to us.

If this was worn it was very rarely. You can see the leather sweatband has no wear on it at all!

The picture of the whole underside is the best representation of the actual color. Dad is calling this a Mossy Brown. Inside the home it has that old brown military hat brown color with just a faint mossy green in it, we don’t see the same outside though.

It is easy to identify this as an early 1960s Resistol by the red liner and the BR15 stamped onto the leather sweatband. BR a stands for the designers name, the very famous hat designers BYER-ROLNICK and the 15 is the Beaver rating. Back then the beaver rating were much better than todays! I think that Stetson now has a Beaver 1000? It’s just out of control! 

This was actually manufactured by Resistol! This is NOT a a HATCO product, very big difference. These older Beaver 15 hats are so easy to with! This is very soft and pliable and so very easily steamed and shaped.This is NOT an anything like the newer, EXTREMELY stiff Resistol or Stetson or other manufacturers hat!  Steam shaping this is easy to do if you’d ever wanted to change it? But why would you? It’s just beautiful the way it sits now.

Once dad and grandson steamed this into an Open Crown they both agreed that because of the brim shape this would look great as a Gus or Tom Mix cowboy hat. So that shape was steamed into the hat. If you’d like an Open Crown please write and ask us to steam it that way. We just think this is the best looking shape for this hat.

NOTE, picture number 6 is now what it looks like after reworking the hat.

OLD NOTE:  “After taking pictures outside we can see a very faint outline of the original cattleman shape of the crown. Dad is taking it back on the workbench to clean that us as best as possible. Dad may reshape this back to a cattleman shape? We will edit the ad if he does.”

That wide brim can be steamed to a shovel style brim, just write to ask dad to reshape it.

NOTE: the hat box is an option in this sale. It’s a large box so it’s costing more to ship. The box measurements are about 18X 15X 8+ inches, it’s a BIG hat box to fit this hat! If you want the hat box shipping will be $36.20. 

Shipping outside the continental USA aid without the hat box. It’s to expensive but if you’d like the hat box you MUST write to us before buying the hat so we can edit the size and weight.

The hat is BIG so shipping is a couple of dollars more than we usually charge.

If you have any questions please write us.

The was a hat tag states 7-1/4 and this measures to a perfect 7-1/4 at 22-3/4 inches. We actually measure each hat 3 times to verify the size, whether tagged or not.

Details

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

Length 15.6 inches

Width 14.4 inches, widest part

Height 6.3 inches at the tallest point and the front is 3.5 inches

Wide Brim width 3.6 inches

Grosgrain Ribbon is 3/4 of an inch

Leather sweatband