An curved arrow pointing right. Flint and Port Hat Company is a one-craftsman custom-hat shop in Bainbridge, Georgia. The hats are made by hand by owner and milliner Eldrick Jacobs and take up to ...

Mr. Poland, in his “Fur-bearing Animals,” tells us that upwards of 63,000 beaver skins were sold by the Hudson's Bay Company in 1891. But “beaver-hats” formerly required a much larger ...

The underwool from the beaver pelts was used to make the beaver hat. The fur trade was based on the barter system and in the late 1700s a blanket was worth seven prime beaver pelts, a gun cost 14 ...

Because you’ll go through a wool hat that will break down in a year or so, where a rabbit or beaver fur hat can be scrubbed ...