Of all the places for a 170-year-old jacket from Canada to turn up, a vintage shop in Barnsley wouldn't be our first guess 🇨🇦 🧥
A jacket thought to be more than 170 years old has turned up in a Barnsley vintage shop.
It is believed indigenous tribes from western Canada made it in the 1850s, probably by someone from the Métis or Cree nations. The jacket made its way to the Glass Onion vintage warehouse after travelling thousands of miles from the US during one of the store’s regular imports., where people guessed its likely background.
Glass Onion’s head of marketing, Alice Leadbetter, said the jacket ‘stood out’ as soon as she saw it, especially because it was in such ‘great condition’.Details from the materials and stitching provide clues to the jacket’s background The jacket has been dated to the 1850s, making it around 170 years old
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