$400
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Description
4" width. Designed to sit on the back of the head
and frame at the face,the wire-framed bonnet is
formed of a rich berry-purple with folded
pleats,and has a decorative and intricately folded
burgundy silk arrangement at the crow that is
decorated with a "diamond" buckle and a cluster of
tiny red berries. The burgundy ribbons extends
entirely around the edge and forms into
streamers,and a coral braid and black looped
design edge the inner brim. With original
(illegible) gold French milliner's label. Circa 1875.