27-02-2019, 08:00 AM
The hats post more relevant to provenance is this one:
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But the real smoking gun for dating is in the sleeves post JKP linked above. I cross referenced the dates of relevant men's sleeves with those of the women, and the result confirms the radiocarbon dating. There's only a few decades when these two were in fashion simultaneously.
Fashion is usually updated to the expectationd of the time. That's why museum curators may use it to date an object if no other methods are available.
In our case, botn fashion and radio carbon dating point towards the early 15th century.
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But the real smoking gun for dating is in the sleeves post JKP linked above. I cross referenced the dates of relevant men's sleeves with those of the women, and the result confirms the radiocarbon dating. There's only a few decades when these two were in fashion simultaneously.
Fashion is usually updated to the expectationd of the time. That's why museum curators may use it to date an object if no other methods are available.
In our case, botn fashion and radio carbon dating point towards the early 15th century.