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Top Hat
Clothing/Dress/Costume
Top hat, black silk plush with narrow flat brim faced with silk satin. Angled slightly inward toward the top in profile. Narrow black grosgrain hatband folded through a tiny black lacquered hexagonal buckle. Light buff paper lining, black leather sweat band with 8 sets of holes and peach tasseled silk cord to adjust fit. Labeled, gold printed on ivory moire ribbon striped silk top lining. A little short and a little smaller from front to back than our others.
G2007.007
Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection
Adult, Male
Headwear
Historic Costume
Top Hat
Male
cotton or silk plush
Grosgrain
Paper
Black
1845 - 1860
User Age: Adult Gender: male
Makers Mark
Inside Top
"A. Cornwall Rochester NY Buffalo St."
English
Stamped
hat
Top hat
male
man
silk plush
silk satin
grosgrain
hatband
buckle
leather
taseel
silk
moire ribbon
Cornwall
Rochester
hat
Top hat
male
man
silk plush
silk satin
grosgrain
hatband
buckle
leather
taseel
silk
moire ribbon
Cornwall
Rochester
New York
United States of America
North America