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MOE HOWARD'S FELT FEDORA

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MOE HOWARD'S FELT FEDORA
<b>477. MOE HOWARD'S FELT FEDORA </b>MOE HOWARD American film comedian, the tough guy and eye-poking specialist in the Three Stooges film shorts. A superb Howard relic, an original brown felt fedora hat, personally given by Howard himself to TV legend <b>JOE FRANKLIN</b>, creator and host of The Joe Franklin Show! Sporting a wide black ribbon trim, the hat was made by Dobb's of Fifth Avenue in New York. Sold with a notarized letter of provenance signed by Joe Franklin, 2pp. 4to., New York, Jan. 4, 2002, which reads, in part: "<i>...Mr. Moe Howard's personal fedora hat was obtained PERSONALLY by me, Joe Franklin, from famed comedian Jerry Colonna...in 1985 at Woodland Hills Motion Picture Home and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California, where he would later pass away of kidney disease...Colonna was a close friend of Moe Howard and this 1940s era fedora...were personally given to Colonna by Howard in the late 1960s, where they remained among Colonna's personal belongings until he offered [it] to me personally at the Motion Picture Home as new additions to my Archives of historical entertainment Memorabilia and Nostalgia...</i>". In very good condition, the hat appears to have been lovingly cared for. A fantastic relic from one of comedy's greats!<b>$1,500-2,000</b>