Civil War Era Hairwork Wreath with Cut Paper Border in Original Carved Frame antique authors game I'm sure there have been

I'm sure there have been some samples lost over the years

Color is best on images of the obelisks laying on their sides

opens and closes with ease and key turns great

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Civil War Era Hairwork Wreath with Cut Paper Border in Original Carved Frame antique authors game I'm sure there have beenI was thrilled to find this one at an antiques show last week to my sensibilities an ideal example of a hair work wreath. Mid 19th century, it features at least three or four different samples of hair, likely more, very finely gathered and looped and wound into buds forming the arch of the wreath and then into a larger bow like flower at bottom. All the better to me for being of this intimate scale, and rarer still for being mounted to a cut paper