Opera hat
Category
Costume
Date
1775 - 1825
Materials
Textile
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1349882
Summary
Opera hat - Made from black beaver and lined with black silk. It is a crescentic hat trimmed with a silk cord loop over a black silk cockade. There is a black silk covered button at the base of the loop. (male) Wade Catalogue number B.3 "Cockade hat of black beaver with black silk lacing and cockade. Folds flat. Bought with No. 1A. 1790-1815" Bought from F.W Phillips for £0.10.0
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade