
Originally Posted by
figheadair
I sought clarification along those lines from them some years ago.
I also questioned whether the piece had been verified at the time (late 1940s) by the National Museum - it was not, and whether it was photographed.
Unsurprisingly, given that this has all the hallmarked of a marketing hoax, I never received a reply.
This story does have an Allen Brothers ring to it.
However to give the Brothers due credit, had they been pressed to produce the cloth they would have done- literally.
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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