Victorian Hair Mourning Piece, Vine with Flowers Atop Cross, Alouisa Johnson portrait of fireman and the smiling one when

and the smiling one when feeling happy and receptive

with the hook at the end perhaps a later addition

) The underside of the lid on this one is stamped "Lincoln Institute for Psychology

And the reverse glass painted frame

I'd guess these wonderful white rabbits were once part of something else

Victorian Hair Mourning Piece, Vine with Flowers Atop Cross, Alouisa Johnson portrait of fireman and the smiling one whenI found this art an estate sale in near Amherst, MAthe home of collectors of tons of daguerreotypes, primitives, American art pottery, Native baskets, and all sorts of other things. It took me a bit to realize it, but the piecemade entirely of strands of hair painstakingly looped and knotted around and through a wire armaturecomprises a cross for the bottom layer, with a leafy vine punctuated with flowers over top. It was secured to paper, with the