Happy Monday!
The hat says ‘Father Knickerbocker’ which was the name of one of Washington Irving’s friends around 1800 who was a character in Irving’s first book. The name also became eponymous for knickerbockers as a piece of clothing that the character wore – not to the hat, as one might imagine in this image, but rather to the style of baggy pants.
Here’s to pub trivia night!
By Felix O.C. Darley – Irving, Washington; Diedrich Knickerbocker’s A History of New-York New York: G.P. Putnam, 1849; frontispiece, Public Domain, Link
I found the name of the original company interesting. The group that did “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” is given credit for this jingle. Al Hurt also made it into a record. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbzTcFRiEr0
Here is an early commercial with this jingle.
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