SOLD Very Fine Victorian Hair Work Chain (Collar?) Presumed European carved wooden cicada Really a lovely little thing

Really a lovely little thing

and another I am listing simultaneously

With gun in one hand

and would probably push other people out of the way if I had to

how even did they get the signature in there

SOLD Very Fine Victorian Hair Work Chain (Collar?) Presumed European carved wooden cicada Really a lovely little thingI've looked at a fair amount of hair work, but I've never seen a piece of hairwork jewelry (maybe better to call it hair work lace?) as ornate as this one, which I am guessing was likely made as a collar, with one side clearly the face (front). It appears to me hair from at least three different people was incorporated blonde, brown and black with thread matching the shade of the brown hair used for structure and securing. I can't even imagine the