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Convict cap, before 1849
SAFE / DR 56a
Leather
Bequest of Sir William Dixson, 1952
Leather
Bequest of Sir William Dixson, 1952
The convict cap is extremely rare. This example is one of a few existing convict caps in public collections in Australia. It is also rare as a garment from early colonial Australia and Britain.