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

and the smiling one when feeling happy and receptive

which some might call bird food

Surely made during WWII

standing shoulders to sink

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