cloak

Oliver and Atcherley late John Satterfield & Co

Summary

Plum coloured cotton and red, blue and yellow silk woven in leaf pattern. Lined with plum coloured silk and quilted. Neck and arm opening at each side edged with ruched silk. Fastning down front, ribbon tie at neck. Ribbon band inside waist. Worn by Miss Beatrice Birley, daughter of Herbert Birley, Manchester b.1860. Oliver and Atcherley appear in Slater's Manchester Directory of 1883, but not in 1876 or 1886, so the cloak dates between around 1880 and 1885.