Two Loops and a Line, Victorian Mounted Hair Samples "Drawing", 1867, with Verse on Reverse collectible button band-aids or whatever

band-aids or whatever

It is not a fine painting

Complete (amazing

There is an incised vine pattern running up the sides of the black handle

(Orange bowl/base  pictured in first photo not included

Two Loops and a Line, Victorian Mounted Hair Samples "Drawing", 1867, with Verse on Reverse collectible button band-aids or whateverOne more from a small collection of hair locks and wreaths dating to the 1860s all stitched to, or tucked into, bits of paper annotated with names and notes. I considered listing them as a collection, but realized much of what I find especially beautiful about these is their specificity and singularity in terms of form and content (color, composition, and in this case very much the handwritten names and notes) and so have treated them as individual