Victorian Hair Mourning Piece, Vine with Flowers Atop Cross, Alouisa Johnson portrait of fireman And the reverse glass painted

And the reverse glass painted frame

black ink on stiff

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

with the hook at the end perhaps a later addition

Surely made during WWII

Victorian Hair Mourning Piece, Vine with Flowers Atop Cross, Alouisa Johnson portrait of fireman And the reverse glass paintedI 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