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AN ENGLISH LEATHER HOMBURG HAT BOX
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AN ENGLISH LEATHER HOMBURG HAT BOX

EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Fermé17 September 2020

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AN ENGLISH LEATHER HOMBURG HAT BOX
EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Leather exterior with top handle and securing straps with buckles, lined with crimson velvet, the top embossed WINSTON CHURCHILL and with an oval brass plate to the handle engraved No. 4;
[With:] a photographic postcard of Winston Churchill wearing his trademark black homberg hat
9 ¼ in. (23.5 cm.) high, 12 ½ in. (31.8 cm.) wide, 12 ¼ in. (31 cm.) deep

Anonymous sale; Bushey Auctions, Bushey, UK, 8 December 2010, lot 184.

Note du spécialiste

Originating in the town of Bad Homburg in Hesse, Germany, as a hunting hat, the Homburg hat was popularized in England in the 19th century by public figures such as King Edward VII and Sir Winston Churchill as an alternative to the more formal top hat.

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