Your Hudson Hickory Brown bandana bears the logmark registered in Queensbury, New York in 1840 by James Wells. 
 
In addition to his logging interests, Wells served as a town Clerk in Queensbury, making him the person with whom marks were registered. Presumably he paid himself the statutory registration fee of twenty-five cents. 
 
In the mid 1800's many fortunes were made in the lumber business, but for some, like Wells, financial success remained elusive. 
 
He invested in a foundry and a machine shop. Seven years after registering this mark his assets were sold at a sheriff's sale. He eventually left the forests of the Adirondacks and moved to treeless plains of northern Illinois where he established a greenhouse and floral business.