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Rooster ‘Gothic Blackletter' Black Cotton Tie EUC VTG Trad Ivy Prep 1960s Hess’s
$ 21.11
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Length: 52.25”Width: 1.75”
A square-end Rooster tie decorated with an excerpt from a religious text in gothic blackletter, c.1960s. The attached newspaper ad showing this exact print is from 1965. 100% cotton, made in the USA by Rooster using hand-printed cloth from Sun Fabrics. Excellent vintage condition.
Hess Brothers was a department store founded in Allentown, PA in 1897 by Charles and Max Hess; by the 1980s it had grown into a regional chain consisting of nearly 80 stores. By the 1990s the business was gone, its stores either closed or sold off to conglomerates.