Auction 042322
Dressed to Kill, Dressed to Till
By Casco Bay Auctions
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Apr 23, 2022
147 Main Street, Freeport, ME, United States
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Historic Men’s Dress, Military and Civil, including Costume, Artwork, and Color Plate Books from the James L. Kochan Collection.
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LOT 142:
US Navy Duck Trousers, 2nd half of the 19th century, with a later pair in blue wool (2).
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Sold for: $110
Start price:
$
70
Estimated price :
$150 - $300
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US Navy Duck Trousers, 2nd half of the 19th century, with a later pair in blue wool (2).
1) Trousers with a full-fall front and bell-mounted bottoms, of a traditional form worn by sailors from c. 1830-1900. However, this pair, made of linen duck, have machine-sewn long seams and also hemmed by machine at the cuffs, although buttonholes and other finishing work is still by hand. The buttons are “dead-eye” buttons of white bone. There is a pocket on each side beneath the waistband and just before the outseam, set with a diagonal welt opening that is covered by the fall. The trousers have a slit behind, with adjusting tape set in three worked grommet holes on each side. In form, this would appear to be the type issued by the US Navy during the latter half of the 19th century. Nicely-worked, period mends, done “sailor-fashion.”; 2) A pair of US Navy blue woolen trousers with fall-front, trimmed with black plastic buttons with fouled anchors, and with a partly-obscured contractor label inside, c. WWII.
