Magic City wholesales a table, Eureka base with plastic top-hat attached.

I really like the idea of a top-hat table stand, but plastic?
Has anyone tried to attach a flange to a real ( or collapsable) felt top-hat
Will the felt hat be strong enough?

The hat isn't supposed to be able to support weight, but acts as a container for catching cards you produce, or silks and such.

Understood, but the question remains.

OK, I just wanted to make sure you understood how it works. In that case, attach a flange to a disc of plywood or hardboard the same diameter as the hat you want to convert. Make a small hole in the top of the hat (felt, collapsing, even one of those dollar store collapsing hats) and insert the flange through the hole. Glue the inside bottom (top?) of the hat to the wooden disc and you'll have your table-top-hat. If the hat is a collapsible one, open it up first before screwing it on the base. If you wear the hat (of any type) tilt it back so the flange can't be seen until you are ready to screw it on the table base. The final action of spinning the flange to tighten it makes a perfect moment for stealing the pack of cards or whatever you plan to produce.

Thanks Professor.
Also hoping it will hold the dice from my breakaway die box............it should if placed in the center of the hat.

A top hat on a table base makes for a smart looking prop in my opinion.

For what it's worth, I made a small round table top to fit on a base that I use. This top is only about 7" or 8" in diameter, and the hat simply sits, inverted on top of it. It is not attached, which has many advantages, and the small, thin table top pretty much disappears under the hat. From a couple feet away, it looks like any other hat table.

But for completeness, the earlier hat tables were canes that became table stands, knob end springing legs was downward, and the ferrule was up. Because of the tapered shape of the ferrule the hat had a large metal grommet in the center of the top, and the ferrule poked through that grommet an inch or so, and held the hat in position.

Abbott's used to make a simple cane to top hat, with those cheap wood canes available at costume stores. They just placed the cane in a block of wood on the stage and the hat had a block in it as well, attached to a circle of wood on the inside of the hat. The narrow end of the cane went into the hat which had a hole drilled into it. If the cane tip is replaced with those soft white plastic end caps made, it gives a better fit when pushed into the whole.

Here is a low cost one. http://www.52magic.net/2718_Invisible-Ta......Hat.html

I used to have the Nielson collapsing top hat and cane to table, it was top of the line. If you can find a set now the price is astronomical!