Different Designs, Vintage and New, for Hat Presses

You'll recognize this type of flat-brimmed "campaign" hat from modern-day drill sergeants and State Troopers, or Boy Scout leaders of yore: But you've probably never seen the storage object used to keep that brim perfectly flat: Colloquially called a hat press, it was designed to be hung on the wall and is an early-20th-century example of "offline considerations" from manufacturers. Hanging the hat on a regular hook might allow the brim to deform, whereas this Masonite object would...