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Show Ac of the 811k Hat. An interesting correspondence concerning con-cerning the reported centenary of the high silk hat, or cylinder, as it is called In Germany, is going on in The Mainzer Journal. "Yon are mistitken," writes , an artist correspondent, Min fixing the date of the first appearance of the high hat at only a century ago, Among the marginal illustrations by Albrecht Durer 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 Ammann, published pub-lished in 15B9. a high hat forms the crest of a nobleman. Had these hats not been worn at the period, great artists like Durer and Ammann would certainly not have painted such miserably ugly things, wiiich are the most unsightly pieces of furniture the world has ever Boon. " |