<I>Bouquet holder, hexagonal, ivory handle</I>
Flowers used for personal adornment were a popular, almost mandatory, fashion accessory in the nineteenth century. Small bouquets, called nosegays, posies, or tussie mussies were carried by debutantes, matrons, and girls, and they were a popular gift in the mid to late 1800s a...
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ld1-1642011376834-1642011378377-0
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object
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normalized
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Smithsonian Gardens, Horticultural Artifacts Collection. Gift of Frances Jones Poetker.
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CC0
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2
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import
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FJP.1987.215
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Copper, ivory
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