Mike Jackson’s Hartland Photos:
WESTERN HATS & WARBONNETS
Text & Photographs Copyright Mike Jackson 1998-2009
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| 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. | ||
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| Seth Adams (Ward Bond) : O, R, U, S, similar hat to Maverick Gunfighter only black. | ||
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| Buffalo Bill - Pony Express Rider : no number or letter? | ||
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| Early 800 Champ Cowgirl : rare hat, flat elongated crown | ||
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| Cheyenne : no number or letter, has hatband with “arrowheads”. | ||
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| Gil Favor (Most Common Hat Variation) : GF or FG | ||
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| Gil Favor (Early Uncommon Variation) : no number or letter | ||
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| Hoby Gilman : 825 | ||
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| General Lee : no number | ||
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| Lone Ranger (later Clayton Moore style) :no number (common), LR (uncommon), 801 (uncommon) | ||
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| Brett Maverick (Horse & Rider) : M | ||
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| Lucas McCain - The Rifleman : no number(rare), 826 (common) | ||
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| Roy Rogers (early V-Fringe version) : no number , no hatband, narrower than later RR hat. | ||
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| Roy Rogers (later Horizontal Fringe version) : no number , hatband, wider than early version RR hat. | ||
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| 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. | ||
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| Brett Maverick : usually R, smaller hat than Horse & Rider, not known to have a black hat exept on TV. | ||
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| Clay Hollister : no number or letter. This is the most common. Brochures show one similar to Dillon hat. | ||
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| Vint Bonner : no number or letter | ||
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| There are three large Champ hat molds that I know about. I’ve never seen a factory painted black one. Most are molded in white plastic, however a few of them have also been painted white to match the white paint added to the figures. Most of those probably went with the all black large cowboy. The Cowgirl hat is slightly different than either of the Cowboy hats. | ||
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| Large Champ Cowboy Hat - Style 2 : Not much of a crease and less slant. | ||
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| Large Champ Cowgirl Hat : Flat crown | ||