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Bit of a Scooby Doo! Mystery, the Mystery of the Symbolic Hat.

A person sent a Hat to another person who was a former FIL. The Hat was send from ebay.

The Symbolic Hat was a message that is hard to interpret.
Can anyone help?

-signed at a loss.

Here is the Hat:




Any clues guys and gals?

mooooo.
 
It's a hat. Can't it just be a hat?
 
It's a hat. Can't it just be a hat?
Nope.

The sender has not had contact with the receiver for many many years.
This was the first "communication" over that time.
No message or note of any kind attached, just the unsolicited Symbolic Hat.

The receiver is a lawyer over 80. You can fill in the blanks.
 

The term fedora was in use as early as 1891. Its popularity soared, and eventually it eclipsed the similar-looking homburg.[2]The word fedora comes from the title of an 1882 play by dramatist Victorien Sardou, Fédora, which was written for Sarah Bernhardt.[10] The play was first performed in the United States in 1889. Bernhardt played Princess Fédora Romanov, the heroine of the play. During the play, Bernhardt – a noted cross-dresser – wore a center-creased, soft brimmed hat. The hat was fashionable for women, and the women's rights movement adopted it as a symbol.[11][12] After Edward, Prince of Wales(later the Duke of Windsor) started to wear them in 1924, it became popular among men for its stylishness and its ability to protect the wearer's head from the wind and weather.[11][12] Since the early part of the 20th century, many Haredi and other Orthodox Jews have made black fedoras normal to their daily wear.

Fedoras were much associated with gangsters during Prohibition era in the United States, a connection coinciding with the height of the hat's popularity between the 1920s and the early 1950s
 
It's not a Fedora. It's a Trilby

"A trilby is a narrow-brimmed type of hat. The trilby was once viewed as the rich man's favored hat"

 
If I ever find out what the scoop is I will inform the Scoobi Gang
 
Someone anonymously mailed me a hat via USPS two years ago around this time. Return address 'Santa Claus'. It was mailed from my local post office. Couldn't have been any of my family or friends. Very strange.
 
Someone anonymously mailed me a hat via USPS two years ago around this time. Return address 'Santa Claus'. It was mailed from my local post office. Couldn't have been any of my family or friends. Very strange.
Think I would have freaked, maybe that is the purpose, to knock you back and you get distracted. IDK.
 
No updates, I may reach out.

hernancortes: Are you still at the same address for receiving headgear? Asking for a friend.
 
Note: Mystery Hat is not related to the forum in any way shape or form. Allegedly.
 
Okay. The hat.

Only thing I know, is out of the book Serpico. Back in those days (circa 1970) "hat" was relating to graft payoff. "I need a hat" or money thrown on the table "Go buy yourself a hat."

I've never heard that anywhere else - it must have been local NYC code-wording.

Is your recipient from Gotham, originally? Is/was he expecting some sort of payback or honorarium?
 
No NYC connection. Jewish connection is the receiver. No new information as of now, I just checked.

Last question no and no AFAIK.

But at least you know a possible hat reference. Thanks.
 

What is the symbolism of a hat?​

The hat represents authority and power. Because it covers the head, the hat contains thought; therefore, if it is changed, an opinion is changed. The covered head shows nobility, and different hats signify different orders within the social heirarchy.
 
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