Posted 3 years ago
otiamaria
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UPDATE~ I learned some interesting facts about this coat. There was a tag sewn in the interior. It was revealed by gently pulling some of the fabric aside. The tag had spaces for name and date. Handwritten in pencil and perfectly preserved, it said:
Name: Col. F. Mears
Date: July 1919
(I added a photo of the tag, above).
A quick Google search showed the coat belonged to Colonel Frederick Mears, who was in charge of building the first Alaskan Railway.
The Colonel's wife was from Seattle, which explains how his coat ended up in my home state. They moved here when he retired from the military).
Read about Colonel Mears:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Mears
I'm happy to say that I sent this coat to a gentleman who is a 3rd generation railway worker in Alaska, and he is loaning the coat out to railway museums in that state.
I'm trying to learn about this coat... There are no labels
anywhere on it. I took photos of the things I felt might identify it most
Thanks!
Looks like a WW1 enlisted US Army jacket. The button is engineers.
@flashlarue... THANK YOU!! (I never do all caps typing, but I had to make an exception this time because I've been curious about these costs for over 15 years!) I finally learned something about one! Thank you.