Hair Wreath and Cut Paper Heart for Mary Woodard, Kind Teacher, c. 1840s art deco lacquer box both from the same estate

both from the same estate

and with that big smile

1940s Woodenettes blocks into an endless variety of structures and arrangements to photograph

and with a nice patina to the brass

This small one begins with a list of the causes of the American Revolution

Hair Wreath and Cut Paper Heart for Mary Woodard, Kind Teacher, c. 1840s art deco lacquer box both from the same estateThis hair (kind teacher) Once was mine Please take it now It shall be thine. From Harriet E Permenter to Mary Woodard. Lovely sentiment, lovely thing (a friendship token that is also a bit like a reverse reward to merit), with beautifully braiding of the hair into three loops, tethered by cut and woven interlocking paper hearts. I've found three Harriet Perementer's from these parts, one born 1814, one 1815, and one, Harriet Elizabeth, of Chester, VT,