Item 135810 - Top hat, Portland, ca. 1880

Item 135810 - Top hat, Portland, ca. 1880
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Item 135810
Top hat, Portland, ca. 1880
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Sawyer & Moody, located at 237-239 Middle Street in Portland sold this hat made of silk with a grosgrain ribbon around the crown.

Top hats are often associated with beaver fur, but this one, made long after the beaver fur trade had crashed, was created from silk.

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