I picked up this beautiful HPC that unfortunately lost its visor at some point in its life off of estand (if anyone has an original visor or chincord buttons/cord for sale let me know!) Right away I noticed that it had a LOT of padding, even for an HPC. further investigation revealed a very strange stiffener spring inside:
I carefully removed it, it looks homemade, but why would somebody want to make a spring like this? It has a possibly original to the hat flat steel spring with crimped on ends inside, and then a 1" thick "Sheathe" made of very stiff fishing line like net tubing held together at the ends with some old brown paper tape. It fits this hat perfectly and some thought clearly went into it, is there any chance the original owner added it to get some extra "perkiness"? Here is how the hat looks with the spring removed:
I carefully removed it, it looks homemade, but why would somebody want to make a spring like this? It has a possibly original to the hat flat steel spring with crimped on ends inside, and then a 1" thick "Sheathe" made of very stiff fishing line like net tubing held together at the ends with some old brown paper tape. It fits this hat perfectly and some thought clearly went into it, is there any chance the original owner added it to get some extra "perkiness"? Here is how the hat looks with the spring removed:
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