Object number
95/44
Description
Jacket with a collar, cuffs, pockets and a flared waist. Made of home-spun natural-coloured linen. Found in Aldbury, Hertfordshire, in 1994.
A jacket with a collar, suffs, two pockets, a flared waist and a vent at the back. It is made of home-spun natural-coloured linen, with pairs of large bone buttons down the front. It was found amongst old clothes in a house in Aldbury, Hertfordshire, in 1994. The jacket has been dated as late-nineteenth or early- to mid-twentieth century.
Physical description
1 jacket: good condition
Archival history
MERL 'Handwritten accession' form (Museum of English Rural Life) – 'Standard museum name: JACKET // Accession number: 95/44 // … // Recorder: JMB // Date: 20.2.95 // Description: Homespun linen jacket, natural colour with pairs of large bone buttons down the front, some are missing. The jacket is flared from the waist and has a vent at the back. It has a collar, cuffs on the sleeves and two pockets with flaps. // Dimensions: Length: 80–90 cms. // Associated information: This jacket was found amongst old clothes at ‘Brightwood’, New Ground Road, Aldbury, near Tring, Hertfordshire in June 1994. Probably from the Herts/Bucks. border area. // The house was built in 1882 and the family have lived there since then. Jacket could be early to mid C.20th, but another opinion is that is a late C.19th gentleman’s jacket.’
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External document
- L:\MERL\Objects\JISC 2012\60 series negatives\60_16552.tif - High resolution image
