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1925 · réf. 50606 — New York: A. Koenigsberg 648 Broadway ca. 1925. 8vo. 12 pp. Photo illustrated throughout colour-tinted centerfold. Colour-illustrated softcovers model wearing a stylish hat printed in red & black stapled as issued sewn through punch hole at head of spine w/ gold silk braid slight shelfwear 1 very small closed tear at fore-edge front cover still VG copy. First edition of this very scarce and beautiful catalogue of hat frames and hat bases for millinery shops during the 1920s. The company could supply for hat designers Zibeline hatters plush hats Lyons Velvet Brims Satins Velours Ribbon bound fur and felt hats as well as millinery supplies and hat boxes. Koenigsberg b. 1889 emigrated from England in 1889 to New York where he worked as a furrier for many years with his father Wolf before setting up his own successful millinery supply shop and 4200 square foot factory which successfully operated until the Great Depression. After his shop closed Koenigsberg moved into selling pin ball machines. No copies located in Worldcat; See: New York State Industrial Bulletin of the Department of Labor 1921 Vol. 1 p. 171. A. Koenigsberg, 648 Broadway, paperback