Mike Jackson’s Hartland Photos:
BLACK WESTERN HATS
Text & Photographs Copyright Mike Jackson 1998-2009
|
|
||
| Most riders seemed to get their own hat molds. Some of the hats are numbered or lettered on the underside of the crown, usually fairly visible. However, some hats like the Clayton Moore Lone Ranger hats have letters so fine, you really have to be searching for them. It is not uncommon to find some of the letters backwards or incomplete, such as the hat for The Texan-Bill Longley. I haven’t inspected every hat in my collection for numbering variations, but there could easily be other numbers or letters in some hats that I have not found. | ||
|
|
|
| Seth Adams (Ward Bond) : O, R, U, S, similar hat to Maverick Gunfighter only black. | ||
|
|
|
| Wyatt Earp (Horse & Rider) : no number or letter , range from reddish to maroon, to black | ||
|
|
|
| Gil Favor (Early Uncommon Variation) : no number or letter | ||
|
|
|
| Hoby Gilman : 825 | ||
|
|
|
| Jim Hardie (Horse & Rider) : H | ||
|
|
|
| Bill Longley - The Texan : 827, 27, 72 | ||
|
|
||
| Some of the Gunfighters share hats with their Horse and Rider sets. However, Maverick and Hardie have smaller heads and were fitted with their very own hats. | ||
|
|
|
| Jim Hardie : no number or letter, smaller and more slender hat than Horse & Rider | ||
|
|
|
|
| Clay Hollister : no number or letter. This is the most common. Brochures show one similar to Dillon hat. | ||
|
|
|
| Bat Masterson : no number or letter | ||
|
|
|
| Johnny McKay : no number or letter, similar to a Dillon hat but thicker and black | ||