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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 690505, member: 2844&quot;]I agree with the others on the manufacture of the lace. I am not sure the two belong together.</p><p><br /></p><p>The cap certainly looks German, but I think coastal East Friesland in northern Germany. It is the coast between the Dutch and Danish borders.</p><p>The cap was sometimes worn with with a smaller (black) bonnet which covered most of the cap, with only the trim peeping out:</p><p><img src="https://s14-eu5.startpage.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftypisch-nordsee.de%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F08%2FHallig-Hooge-bunt-und-farbenfroh-zum-Trachtensommer.jpg&amp;sp=4dc1e6f38184e7b4ca9a948304d80bbb" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Things were entirely different in the days of the Hanseatic league, when the region was the only way for Hansa town Hamburg to reach the sea, and trade ships got their provisions along that part of the coast:</p><p><img src="https://s14-eu5.startpage.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http%3A%2F%2Ft0.gstatic.com%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dtbn%3AANd9GcSwyl1E5HEZjksMEw9wbBPJunU-U29Z5kQCgxzvtbZv2PJ5IRJi&amp;sp=89a9602637f632c03b09c4ca22f9e65e&amp;anticache=942475" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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