SOLD Very Fine Victorian Hair Work Chain (Collar?) Presumed European milk bottle carrier Paper size 19 3/8" x

Paper size 19 3/8" x 13 3/8"

While one sees more elaborate examples than this one

The yellow clay bottom points to it being from Ohio

But what additionally makes it for me though is how wonderfully the black ground makes the portrait pop

and a huge one

SOLD Very Fine Victorian Hair Work Chain (Collar?) Presumed European milk bottle carrier Paper size 19 3/8" xI'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