Of blue felt with pale mustard coloured plain woven wool lining, rising to a point and with four lines of white silk piping meeting at the top and attached to the original red woollen tassel (partly detached), and with large and small tricolour cockades, the deep brim with white silk border (incomplete) and embroidered with an anchor and foliage in varying shades of off-white, green and brown floss silk threads, the left side with an oval red felt appliqué embroidered with initials 'PM' (probably those of the original owner) in silver sequins within a border of foliage stitched in silver threads (minor moth damage): mounted on a cloth-covered broad with an old handwritten paper label inscribed 'Cap of Liberty in which Mr. McGibbon escaped Paris at the Revolution'
Of blue felt with pale mustard coloured plain woven wool lining, rising to a point and with four lines of white silk piping meeting at the top and attached to the original red woollen tassel (partly detached), and with large and small tricolour cockades, the deep brim with white silk border (incomplete) and embroidered with an anchor and foliage in varying shades of off-white, green and brown floss silk threads, the left side with an oval red felt appliqué embroidered with initials 'PM' (probably those of the original owner) in silver sequins within a border of foliage stitched in silver threads (minor moth damage): mounted on a cloth-covered broad with an old handwritten paper label inscribed 'Cap of Liberty in which Mr. McGibbon escaped Paris at the Revolution'
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