Artist/Maker
Dunlap & Company
Artist/Maker
F. W. Wentworth Company
Place MadeUnited States
Title
Beaver top hat
Mediumfur, silk, leather
Dimensions6 1/2 × 10 × 11 1/2 in. (16.5 × 25.4 × 29.2 cm)
Object number00.221.62
Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum
DescriptionBlack beaver top hat with silk ribband around crown, upturned lip on brim. Leather sweatband.By 1850, most top hats were made with silk instead of felted beaver fur. The silk liner of the hat has the trademark of "Dunlap & Company" of New York.
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E. L. Cannon & Co.
Haskell, C. M.
Hall & Gifford
Palmer & Bachelders
Bailey, Lebbeus
Circa 1812
