SOLD Very Fine Victorian Hair Work Chain (Collar?) Presumed European carved wooden cicada and framed in an old

and framed in an old black-painted wood frame

Really a lovely little thing

Sliding open the lid of this box to find it filled with these old bone gaming chips was

I found this not far from me on the North Shore in Massachusetts

The front page of the 15 page booklet is detached but the rest bound and all there

SOLD Very Fine Victorian Hair Work Chain (Collar?) Presumed European carved wooden cicada and framed in an oldI'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