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Flower spray decoration intended for a hat, made 1894, Great Britain. Millinery wire covered with brown silk thread and decorated with Coppery-headed emerald humming bird feathers and Indian beetle wing arranged in the form of a floral spray. Individual f

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Flower spray decoration intended for a hat, made 1894, Great Britain. Millinery wire covered with brown silk thread and decorated with Coppery-headed emerald humming bird feathers and Indian beetle wing arranged in the form of a floral spray. Individual feathers form leaves and 7 pieces of hummingbird skin, cut in the shape of the petal with the iridescent copper form a blossom, with 7 pieces of beetle-wing in the centre.  Wire, silk, coppery-headed emerald humming bird feathers and beetle wing.
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Title: Flower spray decoration intended for a hat, made 1894, Great Britain. Millinery wire covered with brown silk thread and decorated with Coppery-headed emerald humming bird feathers and Indian beetle wing arranged in the form of a floral spray. Individual f
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Flower spray decoration intended for a hat, made 1894, Great Britain.
 Millinery wire covered with brown silk thread and decorated with Coppery-headed emerald humming bird feathers and Indian beetle wing arranged in the form of a floral spray.
Individual feathers form leaves and 7 pieces of hummingbird skin, cut in the shape of the petal with the iridescent copper form a blossom, with 7 pieces of beetle-wing in the centre.
  Wire, silk, coppery-headed emerald humming bird feathers and beetle wing.

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