Scrooge's silk hat

[Kriton Kyrimis]

On Tuesday 20 May 2003 05:09, Sigvald Gr?sfjeld jr. wrote:

> Scrooge says that he
> bought his silk hat at a second hand sale during the days of Klondike. This
> explanation of the hat's origin contradicts the "fact" given in panel 1 on
> page 15 of Lo$, part 11 - "The Empire-builder from Calisota" where it's
> clearly shown that Scrooge bought his silk hat and his stick on sale in a
> store in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1909 in order to look OK when meeting
> czar Nikolai II (Don Rosa has based this on "facts" previous given by Carl
> Barks).

The actual "fact" about Scrooge's top hat is that Scrooge bought it
a *long* time ago, *and still wears it*! Barks could very well have
mentioned more than one set of circumstances under which Scrooge got
his hat, using whatever reference he thought was funnier at the time,
and it would not have been a contradiction. On the other hand, if the
author of the story you mention, had said that Scrooge had bought the
hat recently, or that he had paid a high price for it, now that would
have been a contradiction!

	Kriton	(e-mail: kyrimis at cti.gr)
	      	(WWW:    http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis)
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