Worst Marketing Tool? Or Best?

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From the Cuming Collection of the Southwark Heritage Archives, London, UK. ⁣⁣

The Museum of Ridiculously Interesting Things shares this awesome and not at all ridiculous thing – a brown velvet hat decorated with rotten human teeth. Extracted by a traveling tooth puller in mid-1800s London, the teeth hat was meant to reassure prospective patients that the street dentist had the skills needed to remove a rotten tooth without risk of pain or infection.

Remove the tooth? Maybe. Without pain? Doubtful. But he looked amazing.

We would like to read about a character wearing this hat.

(Heck, we’d like to own this hat.)