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Historic Costume | Fine and Decorative Arts

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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

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