Featured Old baseball cap - who wore it?

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  1. Bookahtoo

    Bookahtoo Moderator Moderator

    My friend found this hat at a cleanout. Someone told him it is an old Boston College baseball hat. What do you think? How old do you think it is? Thanks.

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  2. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    The name on the inside is Gordon Lethbridge (with a couple initials between.) Given the name and the stripes on the hat I think it might have been for cricket.
     
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  3. SBSVC

    SBSVC Well-Known Member

    I don't know, Book. My sister went to BC for grad school, and as I recall, the school colors were maroon & gold. (BU is scarlet & white, but the initials don't match...)
     
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  5. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    The name of the club is written under the owner's name.

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  6. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    Better eyes than mine, Debora! But maybe Book can read it.
     
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  7. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    That's a cricketer's hat all right. It's from some place in the Empire, doubtless.
     
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  8. SBSVC

    SBSVC Well-Known Member

    Birmingham?
     
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  9. KingofThings

    KingofThings 'Illiteracy is a terrible thing to waist' - MHH

    My guess as well.
     
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  10. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    Don't think there's a Birmingham Cricket Club. League yes.

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  11. daveydempsey

    daveydempsey Moderator Moderator

    CC means Cricket Club, it looks like Bingage or Birgage to me, it could be anywhere from the British Commonwealth that play cricket, India, Ceylon, Australia, Caribbean, NZ, South Africa........
     
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  12. Bookahtoo

    Bookahtoo Moderator Moderator

    A cricket cap - now why didn't I think of that!

    Here's a close up of the writing - it does look like Birmingham to me but then again, it may be the power of suggestion:

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  13. daveydempsey

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    I darkened it a bit.

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  14. KingofThings

    KingofThings 'Illiteracy is a terrible thing to waist' - MHH

    Would a black light make that more legible?
     
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  15. Bev aka thelmasstuff

    Bev aka thelmasstuff Colored pencil artist extraordinaire ;)

    I'm seeing Bri.. not Bir

    The letter under the D in Gordon looks like a Y
     
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  16. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    I'm kind of seeing Birmingham too, but that may be suggestion.
     
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  17. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    I see Bi something i and then I get lost.
     
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