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Show Age of tbo Silk Hat. An interesting correspondence concerning1 con-cerning1 the reported centenary of the high silk hat, or cylinder, as it is called in Germany, is going on in The Moinzer Journal. "You aro mistaken," writes an artist correspondent, "in fixing the dato of the first appearance of the high hat at only a century ago. Among the marginal illustrations by Albrocht Darer of the famous prayer book of the Emperor Em-peror Maximilian, there is a man wearing wear-ing a high hat, and in a book of crests and escutcheons of Jost Amjoann, published pub-lished in 1889, a high hat forms the crest of a nobleman, Had these hats not been worn at the period, great artists like Dnrer and Ainuann would certainly not have painted such miserably ngly things, which are the most unsightly piecus of furniture tho world has ever seen." |