Original U.S. WWI US Army M1911 Felt Campaign Hat by Stetson With Officers’ Cord - 7 ¼ Italian Flags is the marking from the

is the marking from the inspector at that location

so it is definitely Korean war era

In the same time the manufacturing specifications became much more precise

as part of the Big Week of assaults on German aircraft targets

Original U.S. WWI US Army M1911 Felt Campaign Hat by Stetson With Officers’ Cord - 7 ¼ Italian Flags is the marking from theOriginal Item: Only One Available. There is no more well known name when it comes to hats in the "Pioneering American West" than the John B. Stetson Company. Their Boss of the Plains Western hat would become the cornerstone of Stetson's hat business and is still in production today. Stetson eventually became the world's largest hat maker, producing more than 3,300,000 hats a year in a factory spread over 9 acres (36,000 m2) in Philadelphia. This is a