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Well speaking for myself, what I was seeing was a basic wide brimmed circular hat pinned up at the front and back.

Maybe the artist was just rubbish at perspective and they are tricorns ;)

The hat shown in this picture above looks to me a lot like the one that was featured in the Captain Kidd exhibit:

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Those are practically tricones especially latter one. Actually what is the line that hat need to cross to come tricorn. To me it is 3 side turned up and that is what the latter hat looks like. While later hats were more compact to me hats like these are tricones as much as the classic style....

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There is a paragraph in the 1729 edition of the spectator that seemed to say that the hats the navy were using were long out of date:

"We hear from good authority, that it is the intention of the Admiralty to revise the present regulation for the uniform of the Royal Navy, with the view of reducing the costly expenditure of the junior officers. It is said that epaulettes are to be altogether abolished, and it is a question whether the antiquated cocked-hat will be retained for use on board ship.— United Service Gazette. . "

That date must be wrong, I'd guess at 1829. There were two papers called The Spectator, the first ran in 1711-1712 and 1714, the second was founded in 1828. I'm also 99% certain that the United Service Gazette was not published as early as 1729. There was no Royal Navy uniform regulation until 1748, and it did include epaulettes until the end of the 18th century.

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Okay this is just my thoughts on the hats on the woodcuts;

Tricorns/Cocked Hats are just a bitch to draw from certain angles and even more of a bugger to carve =o), colour/shading helps makes perspective work.

But...

nicolasdelargilliere_labellestrasbourgeoise.jpg La Belle Strasbourgeoise by Nicolas De Largilliere, 1703

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Outfit in Strasbourg Museum

Definately a athwarts bicorn =o/

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Granted, but that's still nothing like what's shown in the depictions above. It's also on a person of the female persuasion.

Do you have any thoughts on the possibility of those hats depicted being bicorns in the sense that we usually understand the word?

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Granted, but that's still nothing like what's shown in the depictions above. It's also on a person of the female persuasion.

Do you have any thoughts on the possibility of those hats depicted being bicorns in the sense that we usually understand the word?

I think that he said that he see those as tricons and not bicorns. In my post with other images from same maker there we can see tricorns drawn in many different way....

Pod you seems to be in wrong century today ;)

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Granted, but that's still nothing like what's shown in the depictions above. It's also on a person of the female persuasion.

Do you have any thoughts on the possibility of those hats depicted being bicorns in the sense that we usually understand the word?

If the lady is wearing Riding Habit then there's a chance it's a masculine style of hat .....

I really hate giving a definative when it concerns historical styles but if you mean like this folding 'Chapeau Bras'

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Or this rigid 'Bicorne'

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Prob'ly not (Never say never though)

Cocked hats with a short high front cock and fantail like matey on the left

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Is a poss, although more common towards the end of the 18thC it's just another way of cocking a hat and ent far off

this one wot SB1700 nailed up

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There's always 'regional styles' to take into consideration, Spanish officers hat ent a million miles from the modern Spanish Plod dress hats.

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All that plus artistic licence/interpretation and the limitations/skill of the artist aside my vote is for badly drawn cocked hat.

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All that plus artistic licence/interpretation and the limitations/skill of the artist aside my vote is for badly drawn cocked hat.

My vote goes to the badly drawn cocked hat. Don Maitz, who is a good friend of mine and a very accomplished pirate artist tells me that a tricorne hat is one of the most difficult things to draw and have it come out looking right.

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All that plus artistic licence/interpretation and the limitations/skill of the artist aside my vote is for badly drawn cocked hat.

My vote goes to the badly drawn cocked hat. Don Maitz, who is a good friend of mine and a very accomplished pirate artist tells me that a tricorne hat is one of the most difficult things to draw and have it come out looking right.

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I have draw few also and they are indeed hard to make.... ;)

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Granted, but that's still nothing like what's shown in the depictions above. It's also on a person of the female persuasion.

Do you have any thoughts on the possibility of those hats depicted being bicorns in the sense that we usually understand the word?

If the lady is wearing Riding Habit then there's a chance it's a masculine style of hat .....

I really hate giving a definative when it concerns historical styles but if you mean like this folding 'Chapeau Bras'

r7604.jpg

Or this rigid 'Bicorne'

OFFa1.jpg

Prob'ly not (Never say never though)

Cocked hats with a short high front cock and fantail like matey on the left

5495211250_dcbd999a34_z.jpg

Is a poss, although more common towards the end of the 18thC it's just another way of cocking a hat and ent far off

this one wot SB1700 nailed up

00039.jpg

There's always 'regional styles' to take into consideration, Spanish officers hat ent a million miles from the modern Spanish Plod dress hats.

Tricornio_Guardia_Civil_(Gran_Gala).jpg

All that plus artistic licence/interpretation and the limitations/skill of the artist aside my vote is for badly drawn cocked hat.

Could you say when bicornes came in the use?

I have hunger for dates of those hats....

To point out than there were many different hat styles here in one picture. This hat is just like tricorn but brim is not turned up on the backside.

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Here is other copy of that admiral and I still see that admiral hat as tricon that is backwards.

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BTW here some cavarly men use tricones backwards see (from left to right) III man and V man.... and date is 1704....

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Now just stuff

Here is some interesting pictures

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Alexis Grimou [1678 - 1733] - Young Man Playing a Recorder

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Famous really old soldier Thomas Hiseland probaply when he was a Chelsea pensioner circa 1730(?)

Somebody has nice picture gallery of late 17th century clothing on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/44890094@N08/sets/72157622836818796/with/4272966919/

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Edmond Halley's diving bell of 1716

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There is a paragraph in the 1729 edition of the spectator that seemed to say that the hats the navy were using were long out of date:

"We hear from good authority, that it is the intention of the Admiralty to revise the present regulation for the uniform of the Royal Navy, with the view of reducing the costly expenditure of the junior officers. It is said that epaulettes are to be altogether abolished, and it is a question whether the antiquated cocked-hat will be retained for use on board ship.— United Service Gazette. . "

That date must be wrong, I'd guess at 1829. There were two papers called The Spectator, the first ran in 1711-1712 and 1714, the second was founded in 1828. I'm also 99% certain that the United Service Gazette was not published as early as 1729. There was no Royal Navy uniform regulation until 1748, and it did include epaulettes until the end of the 18th century.

You aren't wrong. Google books had it listed as the 1729 edition but the front page (which stupidly I didnt check) has the date 1850 on it.

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Makes me laugh, the end of an evening of serious boozing at One's club =o)

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http://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=urn:gvn:MAU01:0190&role=image&size=largest

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Makes me laugh, the end of an evening of serious boozing at One's club =o)

a link coz the board doesn't support the image code

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Drunk bloke copping a feel, slanging match at the taxi rank.......

What is the date of that image. It seems to be from 1700-1740s since there are so long periwigs....

sad to one book maker that those two men are not pirates :P

back to that perpetual Admiral's hat issue

I think only one (Pod) thinks that admiral's hat as bicorn ( no problem with that. there is need for different opinions and visions so I am not teasing here ;) ) and most other think it as tricorn and at least me and Foxe that is backwards.

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It's more Troost, so Netherlands 1730s.

Now for something completely different, see Missy's hat? Well look closely at the lefthand side

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Summat holding the brim up, a string or twisted straw cordage methinks and before you go HAHA straw tricorn.....It's 1630s Spanish =op

Loving the bag too, Mem Sahib picked up a virtually identical bag from Camden Market about 6-7years ago, It'After years of service itneeded some serious patching and since been relegated to peg bag for the laundry.

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back to that perpetual Admiral's hat issue

I think only one (Pod) thinks that admiral's hat as bicorn ( no problem with that. there is need for different opinions and visions so I am not teasing here ;) ) and most other think it as tricorn and at least me and Foxe that is backwards.

I am thinking more along the lines of it being a badly drawn tricorn now than a bicorne (as I didnt realise they werent around then). The shading seems odd if it isnt shaped into at least a small point.

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back to that perpetual Admiral's hat issue

I think only one (Pod) thinks that admiral's hat as bicorn ( no problem with that. there is need for different opinions and visions so I am not teasing here ;) ) and most other think it as tricorn and at least me and Foxe that is backwards.

I am thinking more along the lines of it being a badly drawn tricorn now than a bicorne (as I didnt realise they werent around then). The shading seems odd if it isnt shaped into at least a small point.

The point seems to be on the back. And that point in front side seem to be curve what will born when head is in the hat.

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Ditto on tricorns being a b*tch to draw. And didn;t lots of folks wear them with the point over one eye, which would make drawing it to look like what we are familiar with as a tricorn even more unrecognizable? A tricorn over the left eye and the artist drawing from the right side of the subject might well be rendered as looking like a backwards tricorn.

Great pics. The one of Bridgetown in Barbados - one of my staff is from there and he recognized some of the place names and even the stakes or rocks in the mouth of the harbor, 312 years later!

Pirate music at it's best, from 1650 onwards

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John Greenwood - Sea Captains Carousing in Suriname 1750s

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The South Sea Scheme by Hogarth ( 1721) I see that there is small wigs already in use. Not odd since they came in fashion in 1710s but took long time to them to replace the big wigs.

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Caribbean nature. picture made in 1671

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Taking of the Nuestra Señora de la Encarnación y Desengaño ( made in 1716)

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Aye there is market day in Porto Bello.

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ship building (made 1704). Interesting man with typical tricorn and coat and he can be captain but who knows. Nice stern that ship has already....

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Native American king greets Sir Francis Drake. Oh no he looks like 17th C man. Artist's error :unsure: .

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Tobago, Battle of, 1677. What a mess :wacko:

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There the Spanish got their silver. Made mid/ late 17th C

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Not piraty but a Hungarian Hussar from 1710 and two(Venetian) gentlemen of the same period painted by Luca Carlevarijs and from the V&A website

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