Hair Wreath and Cut Paper Heart for Mary Woodard, Kind Teacher, c. 1840s make do peg game including perhaps inspiring some games

including perhaps inspiring some games of one's own invention

5 3/16" t x 1 5/8" wide standing up

A few more today by a young J

I purchased it from the estate sale of a woman who had a phenomenal collection of textiles from around the world

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Hair Wreath and Cut Paper Heart for Mary Woodard, Kind Teacher, c. 1840s make do peg game including perhaps inspiring some gamesThis hair (kind teacher) Once was mine Please take it now It shall be thine. From Harriet E Permenter to Mary Woodard. Lovely sentiment, lovely thing (a friendship token that is also a bit like a reverse reward to merit), with beautifully braiding of the hair into three loops, tethered by cut and woven interlocking paper hearts. I've found three Harriet Perementer's from these parts, one born 1814, one 1815, and one, Harriet Elizabeth, of Chester, VT,