Excellent NEW Borsalino, 1940s, appears unworn (if it was worn it wasn’t worn more than a handful of times, you can see there is NO wear to the leather sweatband or the hat at all!), Gray Fedora, size 7-1/8.
This is made from Beaver and Hare (English Rabbit, Read below). It’s EXTREMELY Soft! Dad and grandson cleaned and shaped.
We filled the picture gallery so you can see every detail! Nothing to hide on this great Vintage Borsalino fedora. The brim can be flipped up or down in the front. Both look great! It all depend on how you’d like it to look on you?
This was purchased in Italy in the 1940s: Gianni Veneri, in the town of Vicenza Verona and brought back here to the United States.
Dating this was easily done. The liner has the “Onion-Skin” type liner cover. This was used between 1948-1950 but this one dad recognized and know it’s a pre-1950s. Then the thin plastic liner cover was used. Onion-Skin was a pre-Plastic cover that you see nowadays on nearly every hat that is sold. This one is NOT torn or broken. Because of natural aging it is no longer clear but has become opaque. You can still see all the leathering though.
This liner style is called a “BUTTON LINER”, because it’s only on the top of the crown. IE, a large button!
The leather sweatband is still in PERFECT condition! Completely and securely attached with NO wear at all! Still very soft and pliable!
Dad only cleaned this with a horsehair brush and it’s perfectly clean, no stains! NO MOTH BITES!
Thanks to one of our hat collectors for contacting us to help identify the dating on this Borsalino fedora and the material. You can feel the Beaver when shaping the hat and the small tiny Hare fibers, making is hat so easy to work with when steam shaping it and how very soft to the touch it is with the Hare, that is combined with the Beaver. So this is very difficult to rate it as a Beaver but even this old vintage Beaver Hare would equate to a Beaver Twenty.
We took out dad’s 1950s Stetson Beaver hats: 3X, Ten, Fifteen, Twenty and TwentyFive. This is a perfect match for the Beaver Twenty! It’s extremely soft and pliable! Dad and grandson shaped this together.
We don’t know why it doesn’t come out consistently in all the pictures? It’s all the same color throughout! Picture number 4 s the closest and best reflects the actual color.
When we say Hare, that refers to the English Rabbit that Borsalino uses in many of their hats. Borsalino also made many hats years ago made from Beaver.
We took out dad’s collection of Borsalino hats. Their Beaver and Hare (English Rabbit) This best matches the Beaver and not Hare (English Rabbit). One of our collectors says this has a bit of Hare mix with the beaver. 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. This is definitely Beaver!
We took out dad’s 1950s Stetson Beaver hats to compare this to: 3X, Ten, Fifteen, Twenty and TwentyFive. This was an easy match to the Beaver Fifteen. So soft and pliable and holds the shape perfectly. If can easily be reshaped if you wanted? But why? It’s perfect. Perfect teardrop crown and dip in the front brim.
NOTE: dad’s collection for buyer wants to buy the hat box. So currently the is NO hat box included.
There is a size tag 5, that’s the Italian hat sizing number but We actually measure the hat 3 times to determine the size, tagged or not, and it is and measures to a perfect size 7-1/8 at 22-3/8 inches, this agrees with the Tilley Hat Sizing chart.
This is a size 7-1/8 Or 22-3/8 inches or 58
Length 12 inches
Width 11.5 inches
Height 4.4 inches, at the tallest point
Matching Hatband 2 tone 1.25 inches
Brim Width 2.1 inches
Feather set is still in very good condition, very minor wear to it! It can easily be removed if you wanted?
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