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So sad to post this on the heels of my upbeat review of the DeCou Studio flange stand: there's a missing restored conformitor out there, possibly stolen.
I'm reposting the info on it here, since a lot of my readership are folks interested in old hatblocks, millinery tools, and so forth, and many of us do regular eBay searches on various related terms, troll antique sites that vend them, and so forth. I know how i'd feel if i had an antique conformitor turn up missing, so hopefully in boosting the signal we can collectively as a community find it somewhere!
Here's the text from the DeCou Hat Tool Newsletter:
You can read here in Mark's Lumberjocks.com blog about restoring these old hatmaking tools, and see photos of what they look like. The one in the post is one he restored for Buckaroo Hatters in 2009 and is not the missing conformitor, though the missing one will look pretty much like that one. They all look like that, like crazy robotic torture-device top-hats.
Please leave a comment here in this LJ post of mine if you see a listing for such a thing online anywhere, or if you hear of anyone selling a conformitor for a dubiously good price in the Lubbock/Slaton area, and i'll pass the info on.
I'm reposting the info on it here, since a lot of my readership are folks interested in old hatblocks, millinery tools, and so forth, and many of us do regular eBay searches on various related terms, troll antique sites that vend them, and so forth. I know how i'd feel if i had an antique conformitor turn up missing, so hopefully in boosting the signal we can collectively as a community find it somewhere!
Here's the text from the DeCou Hat Tool Newsletter:
I sent a fully insured package through UPS with a restored Maillard Conformateur in it. UPS lost it. There has been a police report filed in the Lubbock & Slaton, Texas area, and UPS is reviewing the claim, which I hope they will pay.
If you hear, or see of a Conformateur for sale right now, please let me know and I’ll investigate to see if it is the same one. I will recognize my work on it, so even with photos, I should be able to identify it. I’ve been, and will continue to scan the internet looking for photos to find it if the thief uses the internet to sell it. The more eyes looking for it, the better though.
We are assuming that someone took the package and they have no idea what was in it, nor what the item is. So, it might be showing up on eBay, or in an antique store, or a pawn shop. Anyway, any help you can offer will be appreciated. There was identifying paperwork in the box, so the thief would have the “name” of the item as a Maillard Conformateur, but they would surely not know the real value of such a unit that has been fully restored.
You can read here in Mark's Lumberjocks.com blog about restoring these old hatmaking tools, and see photos of what they look like. The one in the post is one he restored for Buckaroo Hatters in 2009 and is not the missing conformitor, though the missing one will look pretty much like that one. They all look like that, like crazy robotic torture-device top-hats.
Please leave a comment here in this LJ post of mine if you see a listing for such a thing online anywhere, or if you hear of anyone selling a conformitor for a dubiously good price in the Lubbock/Slaton area, and i'll pass the info on.
