Vintage Wooden Hat Stretcher #012 bit It has straight fixed cheeks

It has straight fixed cheeks

Its straight mouthpiece is covered in black rubber

These have four part wooden trees with wooden handles that screw in to the central section

Dimensions : Interior Width 4⅛" (10

3cm) x ½" (1

Vintage Wooden Hat Stretcher #012 bit It has straight fixed cheeksThis is a fascinating late 19th or early 20th century miliner's tool It is made of two pieces of turned & shaped dark red brown coloured wood. A thick double ended screw connects the two halves, and they can be moved by twisting the handle at the front. There is a guide bar near the base to stop the pieces twisting This was a working tool, there are some scars on the wood, and the handle has a dark patina. It still works well and the mechanism turns