- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- hair, sheep; hair; fibre; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 103.04.1075
- Description
- A green, wool, Swiss-style mountain hat with eight Swiss souvenir novelty pins attached. On viewer’s left front there is a silver pin with a circle of laurel leaves, a crossed ice axe and a ski, a flower in the centre, and a banner underneath engraved with “Berchtesgaden”, next a silver pin with a…
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- Title
- Swiss Hat
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- hair, sheep; hair; fibre; metal
- Dimensions
- 11.0 x 28.0 x 31.2 cm
- Description
- A green, wool, Swiss-style mountain hat with eight Swiss souvenir novelty pins attached. On viewer’s left front there is a silver pin with a circle of laurel leaves, a crossed ice axe and a ski, a flower in the centre, and a banner underneath engraved with “Berchtesgaden”, next a silver pin with a stag’s head with a gun through it, a branch, a flower, a leaf, and a banner underneath engraved with “Obersolzberg”. On the viewer’s right, three enamel shield-shaped pins: “KONINGSSEE” and a church with water in front, mountains and sky behind; “BERCHTESGADEN”, hills, sky and a town; and a red shield-shape with a white cross. The fourth pin is an ice axe with a rope wound around it and an enamel shield-shaped “GSTAAD”, and a deer and mountains; another red shield-shaped pin with a white cross, a clump of animal hair (like a feather decoration) , another shield-shaped pin “SALZBURG” a royal lion on viewer’s left and red, white, and red on the right. There is a white wool cord wound around the crown base twice and knotted. The inside of the hat has a brown leather sweatband with a silk ribbon tied in a bow on the back. In gold script ”Mountain Hat”, a triangle and “fizfal in a circle, “Waterproof” on the back, and part of the sweatband (a part missing) “hrer staad 54” and a piece of paper glued on “26.80 tbe.”. There is a glued-on white sticker on the inside crown, a black edge, red triangle, white “Fizfal”, black “Mountain Hat” red “waterproof”, red “Made in Switzerland”.
- Subject
- sports
- hiking
- climbing
- Lou Crosby
- Credit
- Gift of Robert Crosby Family, Banff, 1998
- Catalogue Number
- 103.04.1075
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