Object Description
The beaver fur black top hat by Melton, hatter to the Queen, with the original label stamped in gold on watered paper with crown, flags and recumbent lion reading Melton – Hatter to the Queen and his Royal Highness Prince of Wales, 154 Regent Street, London – the whole being crafted in Beaver felt with a leather band under the brim and remnants of a black grosgrain ribbon, and the most wonderful hand stitched repair, surviving from the high Victorian period.