Original Item. Only One Available. This is an original U.S. WWI-era M1911-style officer’s campaign hat, privately purchased from John B. Stetson and retailed by C.A. Weed & Co. of Buffalo and Binghamton, New York. It retains its officer’s hat cord, leather chinstrap, silk hatband, and original sweatband, making it a strong surviving example of a privately purchased service hat from the First World War period.The hat is roughly a size 7.

The standard M1911 campaign hat was made from olive drab wool felt with a broad brim and the familiar four-dent or “Montana peak” crown. This privately purchased officer’s example differs from standard issue construction in that it was made without the usual ventilation grommets, a feature encountered on some commercial and private-purchase hats.

This M1911 Campaign hat has definitely seen a lot of service, with heavy wear to the sweatband. There is a black and gold officer’s hat cord around the helmet, indicating this soldier to be an officer, likely a Lieutenant or Captain. There is heavy fraying of the cord material and the bullion covering is entirely missing from the cord of the end knots. This example retains the chinstrap, but it has some cracking.

There is no size tag we can find. The sweatband is marked with the maker’s logo of John B. Stetson and the logo of the retailer, C.A. Weed & Co. of Buffalo and Binghamton, New York.

The combination of the Stetson manufacture, C.A. Weed & Co. retailer marking, private-purchase construction, black-and-gold commissioned-officer cord, surviving silk hatband, original sweatband, and retained chinstrap makes this an appealing WWI-era officer’s campaign hat. Its heavy but honest wear gives it the appearance of a hat that was genuinely used rather than preserved unused, while the commercial markings provide useful evidence of its private-purchase origin.