Herbert Johnson crown measurements

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Posted by Dale Dassel from constellation.shreve.net on September 27, 1999 at 15:23:15:

Okay, for those of you curious to know the crown measurements
of an authentic Herbert Johnson, here goes:

I took a yellow plastic (cloth tape measurer) and mesured the crown
on two sides. On the very front center of the crown, the measure went
from where the crown comes out of the brim, to the part where it
creases in at the top, and we're talking strictly height: the
measurement was 4 and 3/4 inches. On the side, starting at the
bottom of the ribbon, the crown measured about 5 and 1/2 inches.
(If you were to punch the inside top of the crown out, you could
easily achieve six inches.
When it arrived, the crown was not bashed in at the front,
but the top was bashed into the standard u-shaped cavity, which
can be seen very well in stills from Raiders where Indy is jumping
from the horse onto the side of the truck. (Can also be seen very
well in raiders where he is in the temple with Satipo and bends down to brush the dust off of the floor (the camera is briefly directly
above them). Any more questions, measurements, etc? Also would be
more than happy to e-mail photos of my "Poet" courtesy of our new
Sony Mavica digital camera. (You get spectacularly well-lit, clear
shots instantly)

-Dale Dassel

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