Show THE FIRST PAPER COLLARS COLLAR vere viere the invention of walter hunt of philadelphia time a aas began the keeper of a mall ture n out on market arket street as he took a box of linen collars when I 1 had little call for those these tho the linen collar was wai the luxury of the rich now an tramp thinks nothing t of bo be 14 presented ed with ith one which I 1 Is s felsh ly done lone up tip but chich has been dis ded for some sonic reason or other in i early sixties I 1 sold nearly all paper collars these were manusar buted by walter hunt of this city who first invented an enameled collar that had quite a run these Hr fir stones bere ere of toughened paper between thin muslin which looked like linen after great pressure the paper ones were much in advance of those first ones the buttonholes were edged alth nith coarse cotton and the collars made a wg hit they were stamped on the outer side with a steel die to make them look like linen and at the samo same time they were here curled to give them the shape of the neck for years this city as the seat of this paper collar Indu industry str up to 1883 when linen collars became much cheaper any celluloid ones were introduced many millions of these paper collars wore were annually put upon the market now I 1 dont know where go to find one philadelphia record |