Has anyone seen a particular original Confederate cap with an enameled cloth visor that has newsprint showing through on the bottom side? I need to research this cap for a book I'm compiling.
Some background: About five years ago, at an event in North Georgia, a fellow campaigner, Marlin Teat, was wearing a copy of an original Confederate cap as described above. The most unusual feature of the cap was that the visor had been made of newspaper sheets glued together. Instead of putting enameled cloth on both surfaces of the visor, the manufacturer only covered the top and left the newsprint showing on the underside. This surface he merely shellaced.
According to Marlin, he got the idea for the cap from another campaigner, name of Galen out of Alabama.
So... I am trying to track down the original cap so that I can examine it and put images of it in the book.
Any leads would be appreciated.
v/r,
Fred Adolphus
Some background: About five years ago, at an event in North Georgia, a fellow campaigner, Marlin Teat, was wearing a copy of an original Confederate cap as described above. The most unusual feature of the cap was that the visor had been made of newspaper sheets glued together. Instead of putting enameled cloth on both surfaces of the visor, the manufacturer only covered the top and left the newsprint showing on the underside. This surface he merely shellaced.
According to Marlin, he got the idea for the cap from another campaigner, name of Galen out of Alabama.
So... I am trying to track down the original cap so that I can examine it and put images of it in the book.
Any leads would be appreciated.
v/r,
Fred Adolphus
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