Victorian Hair Mourning Piece, Vine with Flowers Atop Cross, Alouisa Johnson pennwort The shorter has a hairline

The shorter has a hairline crack on the underside of the base

it feels quintessentially of that time

7 3/4 t x 2 1/8 w with arms down

and then ears and eyes and legs and tail nailed and/or welded on

Victorian Hair Mourning Piece, Vine with Flowers Atop Cross, Alouisa Johnson pennwort The shorter has a hairlineI 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