Unusual Victorian Hair Mourning Buttons utilitarian sign it makes me thing about

it makes me thing about who was directed to enter through the front doors and who through the sides and everything embedded in that

A real beauty of an old folk art ship in a bottle

and how the cover of her magazine reads like an abstract painting

I might guess is 1920s-40s

The dark brown with gold decoration leather-like covering on the wooden handles shows some wear

Unusual Victorian Hair Mourning Buttons utilitarian sign it makes me thing aboutI've never seen the likes of these, which I believe are Victorian mourning buttons, made with blonde hair encased in finely wrapped and knotted blue cord and thread, silk I believe. One presumes these were made to be sewn to a garment perhaps like toggles on a shawl or coat but I'm not entirely sure. Whatever the case, quite unusual as far as I know, and feeling like literal capsules of another time (and specific person!), which could easily be strung