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[ORDER ITEM - #9163a]
Click on image for additional photos!#9163a - c. 1960's Elizabeth Nichols, GRAYCE TOURELLE, Arlington, Mass. Plaid Wool Headband! Come on... how often have you looked through your wardrobe and thought, "Damn, I wish I had a green/light blue/cranberry wool plaid headband to wear with this outfit!" Ok.. maybe not that often, but now that I've planted the seed in your brain, you might just have that perfect outfit! :) The huge bow is actually stiff over a likely wire base. Mint condition. Have fun! Under $150, so final sale. $ 25.
From Museum Collection
[ORDER ITEM - #6272]
Click on image for additional photos!#6272 - c. 1929 Black Felt Hat with Bandeau of Floral Printed Crepe! Extreme helmet shape cloche help date this hat to the end of the 1920s. Quite unique - shaped of simple black felt with the surprising bold floral printed crepe attached at front! Almost looks like a scarf under the hat! Very cool. I've not seen anything else like it.... ever! Great for those "bad hair" days... this will cover everything. Wear a saucy black dress and pick up one of the colors in the floral band with a belt or accessories. Snappy! Fully lined in a purply-rose iridescent material! Groovy man! Excellent condition. Will fit a normal sized 22" head. $ 245.
[ORDER ITEM - #9126a]
Click on image for additional photos!#9126a - c. 1940's KNOX HAT, New York Gray Wool Men's Homburg Hat with Original Box! Previously owned by some guy with the initials "CFA" and I believe sold at Delano Hat shop in Boston... there's lots of stuff embossed on the inside leather band! Meanwhile.. the exterior of the hat is fabulous. Stiff, but flexible (figure that out! :) medium gray color felt with wide black grosgrain band with large bow at side... even has the original thin elastic band with the "Knox" button. Excellent condition with just the slightest hint of a scuff. The box is just in normal wear, OK condition... but nice to have to continue to protect the hat. Size men's hat labeled 7 1/8... which measures about 22" interior. Under $150, so final sale. $ 145.
[ORDER ITEM - #9949]
Click on image for additional photos!#9949 - c. 1940's Platform Shoes of Black Suede with Cutouts, Slingback and Peep Toe! These came from the same estate as the other 1940s shoes listed below... but those are in near perfect condition... these were obviously worn a bit more. They have a few issues... the suede needs a cleaning as you can see the water mark on the side. And the other issue is that the sole has a tear in the leather at back (see photos) which makes the heels ever so slightly weak. Check out the beading design at front. Even though they are labeled size 7.5aaa, I show them on my size 6.5 slightly foot so you can see they fit me... just a bit too large.. so I'd say a size 7 would be fine. I'd give you the measurements, but they really mean very little... it's all about how it fits. These need to be in your closet! Under $150, so final sale. $ 65.
Approx. - SIZE 7m - 7.5 a
SOLD#9950 - c. 1940's Platform Shoes of Brown Suede with Beading, Slingback and Peep Toe from Harzfelds, Kansas City! Like new condition and ready to wear with your 40s wardrobe, or with any modern day piece! They are perfect in color, shape, material, design, yadda, yadda, yadda. Check out the beading design at front. Even though they are labeled size 8aaaa, I show them on my size 6.5 slightly foot so you can see they fit me... just a bit too large.. so I'd say a size 7 would be fine. I'd give you the measurements, but they really mean very little... it's all about how it fits. These need to be in your closet! $ 285. SOLD
Approx. - SIZE 7m - 7.5 a, perhaps 8aa
[ORDER ITEM - #9951]
Click on image for additional photos!#9951 - c. 1940's I. Miller Bronze Snakeskin Platform Shoes with Slingback and Peep Toe! I got these shoes complete with the original box and in that box was a typed note on the care and feeding (yeah, I just made that part up - it's really just how to take care of...) of the Bronze finish. Even though they are labeled size 8aaaa, I show them on my size 6.5 slightly wide foot so you can see they fit me. I'd give you the measurements, but they really mean very little... it's all about how it fits. SO go spend three times this amount for comparable new shoes, or be smart! Gently worn. The only issue is that the snakeskin on the heels is lifting at the edges. Looks kinda better that way!! :) A bit more texture is cool!! Love the peep toe and "gathering" at the front. Lovely and unique color! $ 225.
Approx. - SIZE 6.5-7m - 7.5a, perhaps 8aa
[ORDER ITEM - #9942]
Click on image for additional photos!#9942 - c. 1950's ROSENFELD, I. Magnin Genuine Ostrich Just Off-White Purse! I'm guessing this purse is from the 50's, though certainly could be the 60's as well. I'm not a purse expert. However I DO know some of the better names/designers/labels in vintage purses, and certainly Rosenfeld was held in high esteem. This rare genuine white ostrich (I'm not sure the ostrich was white, unless he/she was an albino ostrich.... but it's none-the-less genuine! :)... not the embossed faux leather ostrich you might find. Previously owned by a VERY wealthy woman who has supplied this website with other amazingly expensive items including Balenciaga dresses, Hermes snakeskin purse and Russian Sable coats! So I don't think she would be caught carrying around a cheap purse. Nope. Anyway... this piece is in Excellent condition.. just ever so slight wear (she might have used it a few times). The leather interior is near mint. I see three minor dirt marks on the interior top edges,, some at the bottom of purse, and the goldtone metal "pulls" at each of the four grommeted holes for the straps have left circular imprints in the leather. Measures: 9" wide x 6" high by 3" deep (excluding floppy handles). Show off some STYLE! FYI, a comp purse today in ostrich might cost $800 - $2,000 ... and the new 2008 Hermes white ostrich Kelly Pochette clutch is $17,500!!!! If absolutely perfect condition, I might have listed at $695, but due to the extreme minor wear, it's a steal at this price! $ 495.
From Museum Collection
[ORDER ITEM - #6370]
Click on image for additional photos!#6370 - c. 1950 The Halle Bros. Co. Purple Felt Hat with Large Black Velvet Bow and Shaded Velvet Flowers! Hey, here's a pretty hat in a great color! Kind of a combination of floppy and molded. Large brim looks great on those of us who don't look all that great in hats. Huge black velvet floppy bow at front. The crown is surrounded with shaded blues/greens velvet flowers and leaves with a bit of black netting. Excellent condition. $ 345.
From Museum Collection
SOLD#6361 - c. 1902 Black Straw Summer Hat with Black and White Silk Flowers! Great shape of a hat! From 1902 Gibson Girl era so it's meant to be worn on top of the high swept-up Gibson Girl hairdo. Black straw with black silk and chiffon topped with a garden of black large petal floppy flowers edged in white and with black beaded stamina. There is a lovely rhinestone ornament in the back bow at back. There are black taffeta ribbons under as well. The original black hat pin is still in the hat! Brim is turned up on the sides with black netting tucked in. Can be worn slightly tilted for a little extra panache. Wire base. Excellent condition. Measures: 10" x 13". Looks beautiful on!!!! $ 585. SOLD
[ORDER ITEM - #4992]
Click on image for additional photos!#4992 - c. 1950 Brilliant Blue and White Rhinestone Set in Brass Double Compartment Evening Compact Vanity Purse with Lipstick Holder! This is incredibly brilliant! The rhinestones are dazzling! Great to use and wow the crowd, or for your collection. Emerald cut rhinestones cover the entire front. This little brass beauty opens up on both sides. One side has a compact and mirror. The other side has a small cigarette case which can be used for a key, business cards or whatever if you don't smoke (and you shouldn't!) ... and, of course, there is the huge rhinestone topped lipstick holder at the side. There is a simple little snake-chain handle. Interior and Exterior in Excellent condition with scratches on the lipstick holder and normal scratch /wear on back. Interior condition is fabulous... mirror near mint. Measures: 4" wide x 3" high by 1" deep. $ 385.
From Museum Collection
[ORDER ITEM - #6398]
Click on image for additional photos!#6398 - c. 1954 LESLIE JAMES, The White House, San Francisco Fabulous Lilac/Gray Straw with Huge Beads and Pink Apple Blossom Flowers! Surprisingly wonderful color for a straw hat! The perfect Spring hat to wear in lilac season! :) Flat large brim is covered in matching tulle and ornamented with heavy, huge platinum gray metallic beads and sweet pink apple blossom silk flower bunches. Bows encircle the six ornaments at short crown. Measures: 16"x16" circle x 1.5" high. Labeled 22.5 inside, but seems to sit on top of my normal 22" size head quite well, so will fit either normal or slightly larger than normal head. Held on with two thin elastics which are hidden under hair. Excellent condition, near mint. Even comes with the original matching straw hat pin! $ 545.
[ORDER ITEM - #9920]
Click on image for additional photos!#9920 - c. 1940 DELMAR Red Satin Fancy Peep-Toe Mules! Direct from a Greenwich, CT Estate! I believe I have dated these correctly. I did find a late 1930s pair of fancy Delmar shoes in the same color satin material, so... and I think the heel is earlier than the 50's. AND peep-toes were so popular in the 40's. Not to mention I can just see Joan Crawford strutting her stuff in these! :) Excellent condition, barely worn. The color is a great blue-ish hue red rather than an orangy-red. There is NO size on these, but I had a girl who said she wears an "8" try these on and she said they fit her. Certainly way too large for my 6.5 footsies. I'd measure them for you but really it doesn't mean much... but if you must... 10" long x 3 1/8" wide. $ 265.
Approx. - SIZE 8
[ORDER ITEM - #4861]
Click on image for additional photos!#4861 - c. early 1900's RARE FLORENCE LOCKE, Actress Theatrical Waxed Horsehair Wig with Attached Full Bird and Velvet Hat! I purchased this from someone with the verbal history that it belonged to a turn-of-the-century (that's turn of the 1900 century) actress named Florence Locke. It is absolutely WILD! The "hair" is actually extremely highly waxed horsehair (actually has globs of wax seen here and there). Very similar to an old Geisha wig (I have two! so I should know!). The ochre colored velvet "hat" is perched precariously on the hair... and the full-bodied "blackbird" is hanging on for dear life on top of the hat! All this is ONE PIECE on a wig net base. Very heavy and I'm sure as hard to wear as a Las Vegas showgirl headpiece. Amazingly excellent condition with the exception of one of the long black feathers that needs to be reattached (simple!) some photos show with that front feather stuck in, others without... doesn't really need it. I wish I had any information on Florence Locke, but I have none. Sorry! The only information that came with the headpiece was the fact that it was purchased by the last owner at Carmel, CA auction in 1973... and MIGHT have been used in a performance circa 1915. If you have a collection of headpieces... this is a must have! $ 495.
[ORDER ITEM - #6336]
Click on image for additional photos!#6336 - c. 1920's Made in France Exceptional Gold Sequin and Beaded Cloche with Chenille! If you know me, you know that I always search for wonderful flapper headpieces. Sometimes cloches, sometimes headbands, but always fabulous! So here's one that is totally unique... at least as far as I have seen! Made in France (only the best pieces were!), gold sequins tightly sewn onto a cotton net base (which means it will continue to have a long life!) with steel colored glass bead "leaves" inset with two-tone coral chenille. No lining so nothing to worry about tearing. Just lies flat when not worn. (Easy to pack on your next vacation! You never know when you might be invited to a flapper party! :) Will fit a normal sized 22" head. Excellent condition. $ 1,245.
From Museum Collection
[ORDER ITEM - #6408]
Click on image for additional photos!#6408 - c. 1942 The May Co., Los Angeles Glorious Tall Dark Burgundy Wine Colored Felt and Velvet Lampshade Hat! Perhaps it's just that I look great in wide brimmed hats, or perhaps it's that they always make me think of Audrey Hepburn... but whatever it is that draws me to these... my little heart just goes "pitter-patter" when I find a great one! Great color! Slightly lightened for photos to see detail, a deep dark burgundy wine colored felt hat with very high crown and huge lampshade low brim all trimmed in even darker burgundy velvet. The matching netting is torn here and there. You can still wear it up off the face without a problem, but if you wear it down you will see the tears (see photos). Certainly netting can be replaced. Otherwise great condition. The large spot on the netting is wild... I can't quite figure out the reason for it! Any thoughts out there?? $ 645.
From Museum Collection
[ORDER ITEM - #6366]
Click on image for additional photos!#6366 - c. 1946 ORIGINAL SHORLON MODEL Black Silk Velvet "Doll" or "Toy" Tilt-Top Hat! Small tilt-top hat in a fun and fancy "top hat" shape of black velvet and black passementerie, trimmed with gold "chain". Looks like a gold metal chain inside the brim, but it's really a gold material chain. Little gold ball beads sewn to look like flower centers on the black passementerie. The black netting on this hat is especially fine and lovely... however it's not perfect. The hat is the slightest squashing which may or not be as intended originally. Held on the head with one of those great large circle "head holder". There must be a name for this, but I just don't know it... or I used to know and Alzheimer's has set in! $ 235.
From Museum Collection
[ORDER ITEM - #6404]
Click on image for additional photos!#6404 - c. 1938 I. Magnin, Custom Made Felt and Velvet Two-Tone Gray "Three Musketeers" Hat with Ostrich Feather! Ok, I know that calling this my "Three Musketeers" hat is really stretching it... but something about it evokes a cavalier Musketeer (no, geez... not the Mickey Mouse kind)! That would have ears! :) Anyway, it's an interesting shaped hat with turned up brim at back which shows off the other color gray velvet. The top is more a greenish gray. The underside is more of a blue-hued gray. The multi-toned gray large ostrich feather ties in both colors. The large gray netting is tied at back for dramatic effect. Nice stylized felt ornament at back. Condition on this hat is very good.... there are a few issues. The upper gray velvet is a bit dirty so shows a bit of moddled look. The netting is nearly perfect. Will sit on top of your head and it's very comfortable (perhaps even a bit on the larger size) on a 22" normal sized head. Measures: 10" x 10" x 6" tall. Looks really pretty on! $ 185.
From Museum Collection
[ORDER ITEM - #6367]
Click on image for additional photos!#6367 - c. 1947 STUART ORIGINALS Shiny Black "New Look" Straw Hat! This would have been worn with an extreme tilt to the wearer's right, as you see. Fine black shiny straw with bows of black velvet ribbon, trimmed with a large leaf of coarser shiny black straw. The perfect hat to wear with your "New Look" dress! Yeah, I know... you've been looking for just the right hat for that! Under $150, so final sale. $ 145.
From Museum Collection
SOLD#6273 - c. 1940 GEORGE MANDER's HATS, Designed by LAURA, New York Ivory and Beige Fantasy Feathers with Green Velvet Ribbon Larger Doll Hat or Tilt Top Hat! This is what the 1940's doll hat or tilt-top hats were all about! Elegance, sophistication, allure, romance. This will elevated the simplest dress to new heights! The gray hat isn't even seen through the spring green velvet ribbon and bow, and huge beautiful gray and white feathers draping over the whole hat. Dotted chenille netting completes the look. Held on with thin elastic which is usually hidden under the hair at back. A few minor breaks in the beautiful netting. Just live with it or do a quick mending. The hat is SO pretty you won't care. Otherwise nearly perfect. Looks so sophisticated on! Measures: 9.5" x 8" x 3" high. $ 585. SOLD
From Museum Collection
[ORDER ITEM - #6393]
Click on image for additional photos!#6393 - c. 1927 ELZEE Art Modern Style Silk Trim on Straw Wide-Brimmed Cloche / Hat! Summer straw hat in that perfect wide and tall 1927 era look. For those of you, like me, who look like hell in a tight low fitted cloche. I've got one of those faces that just needs volume - either in hair or hat. I envy those beauties like Louise Brooks (look her up on Google if you don't know what she looked like!) who have faces to rival dolls and just made for the low cloche! So... back to us gals... this is the hat for you! Love the bold silk stylized "flowers" embroidered onto the straw in autumn colors... and the leaf elements that are silk floss and hand-painted on! Lined with great logo! Stiff hat in perfect shape. Excellent condition. Measures: 13.5" x 11". x approx. 7" high! Slightly tight on a normal 22" head, but wearable... just a bit higher on the head than you see. 20.5" around interior.. so measure your head at that circumference and you will see where it will fit onto your head. $ 485.
From Museum Collection
[ORDER ITEM - #6274]
Click on image for additional photos!#6274 - c. 1943 GEORGE BEIGEL, Paris Glorious Red Felt "Doll" or "Toy" Hat Trimmed in Shaded Red and Black Rooster Feathers! All Original! OK all you gals who love 1940s doll hats (no, these aren't for dolls... but for fully grown women... it's just the name given these tilt-top hats of the late 1930s and 1940s)! I was lucky enough to get a few superb ones recently... so... don't hesitate. Once they are gone, they are gone! And wouldn't it be nice to have them come live with you? This one is a red felt curvy base doll hat with rare attractive headband which can be worn over or under the hair. The hat is a Parisian import - no surprise - unique and very fashionable arrangement of the shaded red and black rooster feathers. Exceptional design!! Excellent condition...even comes with the original red felt hatpin (you will see a bit of pin at back photo). Worn on top of the head, so will fit anyone. $ 845.
[ORDER ITEM - #0087]
Click on image for additional photos!#0087 - c. 1950's AN ORIGINAL PHIL STRANN, California Retro Edwardian Black "Beaver" Hat with Two Blackbirds Ornaments! I have to confess that I purchased this hat in 1985 and it's been in my personal collection for over 20 years! (I can't believe it... my goodness time is flying!!). Anyway, when I purchased it I was sure it was an Edwardian beaver hat. However.... in my 20+ years of self-education I have since learned that hats with grosgrain ribbons (or petersham ribbon) around the interior date to after 1930. So imagine my surprise to be wrong! (I HATE being wrong!) I just have to say (to defend myself) is that this is a perfect recreation of an Edwardian hat. Excellent condition with just ever so slight age of the birds. $ 545.
From Museum Collection
[ORDER ITEM - #6295]
Click on image for additional photos!#6295 - c. 1907 Garden Party Hat of White Horsehair Teeming with All Original Silk Flowers and Black Velvet Ribbon! What a sweetheart of a hat! Looks great from every angle, even from the top! So wonderfully designed back in 1907, it looks just as perfect with your antique white lace lawn dress or linen suit, as it will look with your modern-day flowing dress for special event or even your wedding! Check out all the decorations... including the unique and beautiful variegated green ribbon! One of the best of the best! Excellent condition! All original! Measures 16" x 15". $ 1,095.
As seen on display at the American Textile Museum, Lowell MA:
From Museum Collection
SOLD#6342 - c. 1912/1913 CONNELL IMPERIAL Elegantly Fashionable Royal Blue Silk and Black Velvet Toque Hat with Gigantic Jet Ornament and Feathers! RARE, All Original, Never Worn! Due to the Tariff Law of 1913, commercial importation of birds of paradise feathers was outlawed so milliners devised a way of clipping and chemically treating rooster feathers to simulate paradise plumes. I'm told that these are the not the outlawed endangered plums, but the rooster plumes, so those of you out there who are environmentalists will be pleased, and those of you who are curious about the dictates on the fashion industry throughout history will be intrigued. The hat is fabulous as you can see! The huge jet ornament is faceted with beads on either side. The hat was likely never worn as it still has the original tag!! RARE! A very wearable hat which will look great on, or on display. Excellent condition with two tiny holes (see photos) that can disappear with a tiny nip/tuck. Fits a normal sized head. $ 865. SOLD
From Museum Collection
[ORDER ITEM - #6349]
Click on image for additional photos!#6349 - c. 1928 DAMACELLA Natural Straw Cloche with Embroidered Colorful Yarn! A 20s beauty! Hard to know if this is a South American influenced design or a stylized Egyptian motif, but whatever the inspiration, it's certainly perfectly "Modern Millie" in it's look! Would go great with just about any summer 20s outfit or suit. Natural woven straw with turned up front brim which allows the hat to sit as low as a cloche should and still allow you to see. Sweet pleating on the side. Just what you've been waiting for for your hat collection! Excellent condition. Fully lined with original lining. As with many true antique cloches, it's a small size... they used to be called "headache" size. It will JUST tightly squeeze onto a normal sized 22" head. Excellent condition.
$ 385.
From Museum Collection
[ORDER ITEM - #6369]
Click on image for additional photos!#6369 - c. 1947 FREDERICK & NELSON, Seattle Red Felt Tilt-Top Hat! Ok... I'm gonna say it right here and now... this hat is "totally unique"! So, now that I've said that... PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE stop using those two words together! I know it's become a huge part of modern American language, but it doesn't MEAN anything! The definition of "unique" is "unique"... "one of a kind"... so to say "totally unique" is an "oxymoron" (a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction). GOT IT??????? :) Oh, and by the way, it's "SEQUINS", not "sequince" or my favorite, "seaquince" Ahhhh.... OK... it's out of my system. I'm better now. SO... the hat you ask? Red felt molded into a great shape, highlighted by two grosgrain ribbons at front. Meant to be worn as you see with a tilt. Excellent condition. Can be worn on a slightly larger than normal 22" head (this is the mannequin with a swelled head). For all you RED HAT SOCIETY members! Under $150, so final sale. $ 145.
From Museum Collection
[ORDER ITEM - #6348]
Click on image for additional photos!#6348 - c. 1927 Glorious Gold Sequin Dinner Cloche! I'm always on the hunt for great 20's flapper fancy dinner or evening cloches. They just "call" to me! But this can be said for so many of my favorite antique/vintage pieces that perhaps they should just lock me up for hearing voices! :) Anyway, if you have the same obsession, you will need to add this cloche to your collection. Burnished gowld netting with metallic floss passementarie embroidery in large deco "star" design. Large gold sequins outline the design for fabulous sparkle! Lined in a peachy-pink golden-shot silk lining which shows through the netting. As with many true antique cloches, it's a small size... they used to be called "headache" size. It will JUST tightly squeeze onto a normal sized 22" head. Excellent condition. $ 845.
From Museum Collection
[ORDER ITEM - #6410]
Click on image for additional photos!#6410 - c. 1946 G. HOWARD HODGE Killer Open Crown Clear Horsehair Hat with Decorative Off-white Raffia and Green Velvet Ribbons! SO fabulous! This has the look of an early 1900's hat of the Gibson Girl era, but it's the 1940's version. And in unique fabrication of a clear stiff horsehair embroidered with off-white glossy raffia (like straw), and trimmed in spring green velvet. What else? An open crown! The best 40s summer hat you will find! Excellent condition. Measures: 13" x 12". Worn on top of the head, so will fit anyone. $ 645.
[ORDER ITEM - #1635]
Click on image for additional photos!#1635 - c. 1909 All Original Huge Straw Horsehair Lampshade Hat Piled with Pink Silk Roses, Trimmed in Black Velvet with WOW Ornament and Beaded Dangles! There is so much going on on this hat I hardly know where to begin. Perhaps I shouldn't bother. After all... when wearing it I don't think you are going to have to talk about it... there will be too many people "oohing and aahing" to hear you anyway! :) I'm putting up some of my favorite hats for 2008, so it's finally time to add a bunch to your collection, or start your collection... as these are few and far between - and have been in private collections for many years. Excellent, near mint condition. $ 1,365.
From Museum Collection
[ORDER ITEM - #6399]
Click on image for additional photos!#6399 - c. 1947 HENRY G. ROSS ORIGINAL, Paris/New York Black Velvet Hat with Silk Floss Brim and Huge Tassel! It's 1947 and Susie is having a bad hair day? What to do? Here was an exciting option for her.. direct from Paris no less! ... and a heck of a lot better than just staying under the covers (well... maybe not! I mean... I love staying in bed all day! :) But I'm assuming Susie had someplace she HAD to go... so... she pulled her hair up and just plopped on this uniquely enchanting black velvet hat surrounded with black silk floss for a brim and voila! It's the addition of a ponytail of black silk floss that gives the hat just the right touch of elegance and flirty fun! And certainly Susie got the attention she so craved that day! Excellent condition. Worn on top of the head, so will fit anyone. $ 235.
From Museum Collection
[ORDER ITEM - #6356]
Click on image for additional photos!#6356 - c. 1959 MISS SALLY VICTOR Lemon Tree Hat! During the era of Bes-Ben, many of the top hat designers followed suit with their own take on whimsical hats. Sally Victor was one of the best known designers of the times, and used her "Miss Sally Victor" label - her more youthful, lower priced line - to create this fabulous little number! :) Little yellow glitzy lemons with large white lemon blossoms covering shiny green leaves. Since I'm from the Northeast, I don't often see a lemon tree, I just have to assume that these are lemon tree leaves! :) Green net veil. Excellent condition. Have fun!! $ 185.
From Museum Collection
[ORDER ITEM - #6294]
Click on image for additional photos!#6294 - c. 1896 Black Lace Bonnet with Violet and Off-White Flowers and Wired Lace "Wings"! Gotta look at how long the original black velvet ribbons hang down the back of this sweet black lacy bonnet! But the wired black chantilly lace "wings" are the highlight of this bonnet! The three wings evoke the feel of a butterfly! Violet and off-white flowers scatter around the top of the piece. Meant to sit on top of the head... with your hair swept up, please. Or just display. Excellent condition with just tired silk flowers as always and one tiny lace break hole in one "wing". $ 365.
From Museum Collection
[ORDER ITEM - #6251]
Click on image for additional photos!#6251 - c. 1923 Chocolate Brown Velvet with Brown and Gold Metallic Brocade Trimmed in a Pompom of Ostrich Plume! Flat brimmed "cloche". Not the typical shape of the head hugging cloche, but more a transitional hat from the large floppy brimmed hats of the early 1920s, into the headache cloches of the mid 1920s. For those of you that look like hell in a typical cloche (that's me!... and my poor Grandmother who was searching for a husband in the 20s and looked as awful as I do in cloches... so she was stuck between being fashionable or being attractive! Unfortunately, looks in photos that she was going with the fashionable, and perhaps that is why she married so late in life? :) OK... back to the hat... Great gold and brown metallic brocade base trimmed in a chocolate brown velvet at brim and neck. Trimmed with a lovely ostrich plum. The condition is great except that the velvet is worn at the folds. It gives it an interesting shading, but it's not perfect (see photos). Measures: 12" x 11", 22.5" inside circumference. Fits a normal sized head. $ 225.
From Museum Collection
[ORDER ITEM - #6297]
Click on image for additional photos!#6297 - c. 1921 Chocolate Brown Straw and Silk Hat Trimmed in Orange Silk Flowers! Silk crepe-de-chine ornamentally woven through the straw at front and tops the crown. The chocolate raffia straw has a lovely sheen to it so the hat seems to glint in a goldtone under certainly lighting conditions. The orange silk flowers are a bit tired but in graduated colors to look realistically just "past their peak". Would look perfect with a day suit or coat from the era. I'm THE person to sell hats... as I try to only sell those that will look great on. You see, I look like hell in most hats, so if they look good on me (with no makeup and while wearing my glasses), they will look good on a monkey! :) And I'm assuming you are cuter than that! Measures: 15" x 12", 22" inside circumference. Fits a normal sized head comfortably... feels perhaps ever so slightly large if anything. $ 425.
From Museum Collection
[ORDER ITEM - #6300]
Click on image for additional photos!#6300 - c. 1937 HATS by HANLON Honey Colored Straw Hat! Well, ain't she different? Unfortunately I was stuck with my mannequin with the molded hair so it's just not sitting on her head as nicely as it might, but it was all I could do to keep it from falling off her any second. It's possible it was worn farther back on the head as more of a crown rather than tilted in a "dollhat" position. I think so. Anyway, you can wear it as it looks best on you... presuming you don't have molded hair (cut back on the gel!). Excellent condition of honey colored folded straw woven into little flowers and nearly basketweave cap. Damn interesting! Bes-Ben would have loved this! :) I know there are people out there who collect straw hats.... I've not seen another like this so.....! Measures: 8" x 8", 17.5" inside circumference. $ 285.
[ORDER ITEM - #4974]
Click on image for additional photos!#4974 - c. 1917 O'Neill, Baltimore Calfskin Leather Lace-up Boots Trimmed in Scalloped Tan Leather! Never Worn! How rare to find antique shoes and boots that were never worn! These came from a museum and they have the tag on the bottom dating them to 1913. You wonder how long the museum had them to stay unworn for so many years. Great color.... a mellow brown with tan scalloped trim. The only thing that looks doesn't look nearly perfect are the wooden stacked heels. One has a slight crack in the wood... perhaps just from drying out, but yet, the leather on the boots is soft and supple. Probably a wearable size, but I didn't want to untie them to find out as I know they would be too thin for me anyway to try on to give you a good idea of size. Measures: 10.5" long x 2.5" wide. $ 685.
Approx. - SIZE 6-7 AAAA
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