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Charcoal gray wool with collar and full lining of brown fur. Double-breasted with ten black abalone shell buttons. Button tab at collar and above hem. Double hook and eye closure at collar. Long sleeves with turned back cuffs and gathered inner wrist lining of gray silk twill. Slash pockets on either side. Loop of black metal chain inside collar.
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Woven label inside collar (partly legible): ""Maison Pierre?/2a....et lie/Tailluirs (seamstresses)/(street)/Paris Nice"" yellow letters on black silk.
Original to Codman House (Lincoln, Mass.),
Unknown
Bequest of Dorothy S.F.M. Codman
1969.5235
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