Is the mounted gentleman in this image wearing a bycocket made of straw?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/hen-magon ... 907230716/
Straw bycocket?
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Straw bycocket?
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Re: Straw bycocket?
Looks like it to me

Re: Straw bycocket?
I've seen them in a couple of places, but the Gaston Phoebus hunting book is the only one that comes to my mind.

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The craftsmen of old had their secrets, and those secrets died with them. We are not the better for that, and neither are they.
http://www.lightlink.com/armory/
http://www.billyandcharlie.com
https://www.facebook.com/BillyAndCharlie
Re: Straw bycocket?
Good to know. Filed away for a rainy day project.
"Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall."
Re: Straw bycocket?
oh, I totally want one now! This would have been awesome when i lived in arizona.
Re: Straw bycocket?
Ran across this image on an unrelated search:
http://tarvos.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/server ... 017469.JPG
http://tarvos.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/server ... 017469.JPG
"Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall."
