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Men's Work Shirt, Brooks Bros. Wool, Dement Trunk [159096]

Currency:USD Category:Artifacts / Shipwreck Artifacts Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 USD and UP
Men's Work Shirt, Brooks Bros. Wool, Dement Trunk [159096]
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One of three woolen work shirts found inside the Dement trunk recovered from the S.S. Central America shipwreck. Brooks Brothers logo showing a sheep suspended by a ribbon surrounded by the words // MERINO / FINISH // is still visible in the lower right (as worn) corner of the shirt. Shoulder-to-waist distance is 27 inches, sleeve length from the back center of the neck opening is about 32 inches. Torso width is 15 inches. Today, these shirts would be considered a size "small" considering that they may have shrunk underwater. Wrists are close-fitting and the neck opening is offset to the right of center (as worn) and has three small buttons. The neckline appears to be hand-stitched in an X pattern, and the bottom hem is only tack-stitched every half-inch or so. All three shirts were neatly folded together in the trunk, and over more than a century on the seafloor, dark brown, orange, and black stains leached from other items in the trunk have colored these originally white shirts with a beautifully symmetrical "tie-died" pattern. Each shirt has a unique color pattern. The fabric is still supple and seems durable.

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Provenance: SS Central America Collection