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Object Name
Hunt Coat
Object Number
2018-14-1
Description
Black wool women's hunt coat or jacket. Lapel collar with olive green velvet and gold wool flannel piping and button hole. Long sleeves with two brass buttons. Center-front opening with three buttonholes and brass buttons with reinforcement buttons behind. Two flap pockets. Back with princess seams and center-back pleat. Buttons with stamped image of fox and letters "LCH." Fully lined with black acetate fabric. Black cotton fabric on both sides of pleat,on inside. Dark gray cotton twill tape loop at inside center-back. Tan silk woven label with dark brown lettering, "CUSTOM STYLED/Brittany/CLOTHES/NEW YORK" with image of rider and horse. Illegible blue hand printed on top of label.
Provenance
Worn by donor while a member of the Litchfield County Hounds.
Comment
The Litchfield County Hounds was a fox hunting club that held weekly hunts in Litchfield until 2002. The club also maintained a kennel for their hounds, held trail rides at White Memorial, ran hunter pace events, and organized a Hunt Ball. This jacket in particular belonged to the whipper-in, who assisted the huntsman by keeping the pack together and rounding up missing hounds.
Category
Maker
Date Made
c.1990
Dimensions
Overall width 36", overall length 28"
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