Scott’s father passed in 2011, which means Scott oversees the thousands of hats today. “This is still the world’s largest hat collection. We’re now at over 109,000. I would guess 115,000 ...

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which in the nineteenth century was one of the largest hat works in the world. The machine is used in the first stage of the mechanised hat making process - its function is to create the hat form.