This 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, born 1831, who I think might be the one.
6 3/4" x 3 11/16. Good condition, with hair and heart tight and firmly attached. One toning stain opposite, from where it was folded, and some splitting to the paper along the fold line, easily stabilized with a bit of archival tape--I'll send some along with it.
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