Black bucket shape hat with horizontal pleats

Black bucket shape hat with horizontal pleats of velvet and velvet covered wire rim. 18” black velvet feather sweeps around from the back to the front of the hat. A sloped brim stands away from the face. Brim is 3” wide at front and back, and 2” at the sides. Hat is 8” tall, 13” front to back and 9” measured over top of crown. The brim of the hat is lined in cream velvet, the rest in black silk, with velvet covering a wire rim; inside the top of the crown stamped in gold w/logo “Chesebro Hats, 621 Grand Avenue, Milwaukee. DATE: Circa 1912.