2020.4: Seal Plush Coat
Item
- Identifier
- 2020.4
- Title
- Seal Plush Coat
- Type
- object
- Format
- manufactured
- Date Created
- 1890-1920
- Place created
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Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
- Description
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A man's coat produced by the 'Sir Titus Salt & Co, Saltaire's 'Seal Plush' process.
The label inside reads: 'This garment is made of Sir Titus Salt's celebrated Seal Plush, and is specially recommended to the wearer by Sir Titus Salt's Co, Saltaire, Eng'.
See also 2018.43 for newspaper advertisements for Seal Plush coats. - Related record
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2019.43: Salt's Plush Coats
- Source
- Shaw, David
- Abstract
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In the late 19th Century, various textile firms in England moved parts of their production across the Atlantic, to avoid the McKinley tariff, the high barrier erected by the US government against imported goods.
Sir Titus Salt Bart. Sons & Co Limited was one such firm. While sustaining its Saltaire business, it created a plush factory at Bridgeport, Connecticut in 1890. Plush is a woven fabric with a pile similar to velvet; ‘seal plush’, a fashionable material at the time, was valued for its resemblance to seal skin
It is very rare that surviving examples of seal plush coats, associated with Salts, come on to the market. In late 2019, such a coat was acquired by Nemine Juvante (Saltaire) Publications, a not-for-profit publishing activity devoted to publishing works relating to Saltaire history. They generously donated the coat to the Saltaire Collection. - Has Format
- image
- Persistent address
- https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/881
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IIIF manifest -
Version 3:
https://explore.saltairecollection.org/iiif-presentation/3/item/881/manifest
- Item sets
- Saltaire Collection
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