Civil War Era Hairwork Wreath with Cut Paper Border in Original Carved Frame p. pohl harmonica which would extend into the

which would extend into the neck of the bottle

educated at Mass Art

I just liked the idea of a humble folk art train car with a humble name (rather than silver plate

graduated greens and yellows and pinks of this beauty on its branch make it hard to take one's eyes off it

Paper is soft and not brittle

Civil War Era Hairwork Wreath with Cut Paper Border in Original Carved Frame p. pohl harmonica which would extend into theI 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