1862 Schoolgirl Cut Paper Hairwork Momentos - SOLD INDIVIDUALLY rebus puzzles with that great drop downhill

with that great drop downhill at the far right  It was done in the 1880s

smooth surface

and was the subject of a major fraud suit in the 1870s

with a hand-decorated slide-top box

It definitely fairly old but I haven't found its match

1862 Schoolgirl Cut Paper Hairwork Momentos - SOLD INDIVIDUALLY rebus puzzles with that great drop downhillSOLD: A, D, E So much fun to find these! Each example here features two cut paper pieces with braided or twisted hair samples stitched onto sky blue paper, with the initials of the friends or family members from whence they came written in pencil, most often inside of hearts! I would guess all of these came from one album, kept by a young girl, with one example noting the year: 1862. Kind of amazing how well they endured from the Civil War era until