- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- hair, beaver; skin; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.04.1061
- Description
- A man’s black hat, bowler style, shaped and hardened. The brim has a piece of leather (1.8cm wide) sewn in to keep the brim turned up. There is a black grosgrain ribbon sewn on for a hat band. On the inside of the light brown, soft leather sweatband, viewer’s right from the back seam, imprinted in …
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- Title
- Bowler Hat
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- hair, beaver; skin; fibre
- Dimensions
- 15.0 cm
- Description
- A man’s black hat, bowler style, shaped and hardened. The brim has a piece of leather (1.8cm wide) sewn in to keep the brim turned up. There is a black grosgrain ribbon sewn on for a hat band. On the inside of the light brown, soft leather sweatband, viewer’s right from the back seam, imprinted in gold lettering “Made Expressly for W. JOHNSON Lyndhurst, ONT.” On the back seam near the brim there is a paper label with “B4” and then “7” underneath; opposite that on the hat band “RUSSIA LEATHER” imprinted in gold lettering. Hand written in pen under and 1.0cm away from this “Hnn” indiscernible could be “12.50”. There is a gold-coloured bowed ribbon sewn on the top of the back seam. On the inside crown a black fabric label with gold lettering “BY SPECIAL APPOINTMENT” underneath the logo, under that “PITT STATE CAP MAKER & HATTER, WELLINGTON ST. STRAND MADE EXPRESSLY FOR W. JOHNSON LYNDHURST, ONT.”
- Subject
- households
- outdoor
- Nick Morant
- Credit
- Gift of Nicholas Morant, Banff, 2006
- Catalogue Number
- 103.04.1061
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