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- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Material
- paper; wood
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0398 a,b
- Description
- Two simple, painted fans with large accordian pleats on wooden vanes. (a) 4.0x33.5x2.0, bamboo vanes, in narrow cardboard box . Long, natural bamboo vanes are carved through with three long ellipses at the top and hinged together at the bottom with a black pin. Fan opens to an arc 57.0 cm across…
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- Title
- Hand Fan
- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Material
- paper; wood
- Description
- Two simple, painted fans with large accordian pleats on wooden vanes. (a) 4.0x33.5x2.0, bamboo vanes, in narrow cardboard box . Long, natural bamboo vanes are carved through with three long ellipses at the top and hinged together at the bottom with a black pin. Fan opens to an arc 57.0 cm across and is painted with a tree in blossom, and flowers by a stream on both sides. Background on one side gold on other silver. Vanes, except for outer two, are sandwiched between paper forming two sides of fan. (b) 6.2x37.9x2.2, black bamboo vanes, five simple long strips of bamboo are hinged together at the bottom with a pin. Fan opens as (a) to an arc 41.0 cm across and is painted on front with design of overlapping large green and yellow leaves on brown stems. Back is printed with irregular design of small silver squares to which three vanes are glued directly. In a long fitted box with Japanese writing and chop marks.
- Subject
- households
- accessory
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0398 a,b
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- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- paper; paint; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.1147
- Description
- A sturdy, oval, cardboard hatbox with a cover in gold with black flecks, and red printing around the rim ”Dobbs Fifth Avenue New York”, the first letter in each word is in red and the rest of the word is in black. The box has a Fifth Avenue street scene with shops in the background, one of which is…
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- Title
- Hatbox
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- paper; paint; metal
- Dimensions
- 18.0 w/cover x 33.0 x 39.0 cm
- Description
- A sturdy, oval, cardboard hatbox with a cover in gold with black flecks, and red printing around the rim ”Dobbs Fifth Avenue New York”, the first letter in each word is in red and the rest of the word is in black. The box has a Fifth Avenue street scene with shops in the background, one of which is “FIFTH AVENUE STYLES Dobbs & Co, Dobbs & Co. Inside there is a cardboard hat form and white and red paper sticker “PACKED BY”.
- Credit
- Gift of Robert Crosby Family, Banff, 1998
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.1147
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- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- skin; fibre; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.1155 a, b
- Description
- a - Brown leather hatbox with blue silk hollowed out interior. Interior 2 leather straps to secure with metal snaps. Ripped gold insignia on inside lip of hatbox lid. Locking mechanism at front. Tag on front “Allied 168 Van Lines.” Metal at four corners securing the leather to the box. “DARROCH” s…
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- Title
- Hatbox
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- skin; fibre; metal
- Dimensions
- 19 x 35 cm
- Description
- a - Brown leather hatbox with blue silk hollowed out interior. Interior 2 leather straps to secure with metal snaps. Ripped gold insignia on inside lip of hatbox lid. Locking mechanism at front. Tag on front “Allied 168 Van Lines.” Metal at four corners securing the leather to the box. “DARROCH” scratched into lid. “347” engraved on lower back.b- Small black velvet pillow measuring 13 cm long by 8 cm wide and 5 cm high. Faded writing visible, illegible. Fragmentary text suggests that it once read: “L. J. APPLEGATH & SON Cor, Yonge and Richmond Streets Toronto, Ont.”
- Subject
- households
- clothing accessory
- Credit
- Gift of Gordon Darroch, Toronto, 2008
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.1155 a, b
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- Date
- 1873 – 1900
- Material
- skin; fibre; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.1014
- Description
- Sam Ward's leather hat case, purple satin, concave lid, leather handle on lid, oval base tapered outward, leather strap joins lid and base with keyless brass lock, tooled flowers around latch on base, interior quilted purple satin, removable molded seat for hat, blue elastic draw strings to secure,…
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- Title
- Hatbox
- Date
- 1873 – 1900
- Material
- skin; fibre; metal
- Description
- Sam Ward's leather hat case, purple satin, concave lid, leather handle on lid, oval base tapered outward, leather strap joins lid and base with keyless brass lock, tooled flowers around latch on base, interior quilted purple satin, removable molded seat for hat, blue elastic draw strings to secure, blue glued fabric interior walls.
- Subject
- households
- clothing accessory
- Sam Ward
- Credit
- Gift of Sam Ward, Banff, 1974
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.1014
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