- Date
- 1907
- Material
- hair; metal; paper
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.1005 a-c
- Description
- Lock of Earle Birney's hair (age 3) in Player's Cigarette tin. A lock of gold hair tied with beige lace, a white envelope with the message "Locks from head of E.B., age 3 cut by mother & kept by her & found in her effects at her death" written in blue ink on the outside. Both envelope and hair are …
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- Title
- Hair
- Date
- 1907
- Material
- hair; metal; paper
- Dimensions
- 14.8 x 11.8 cm
- Description
- Lock of Earle Birney's hair (age 3) in Player's Cigarette tin. A lock of gold hair tied with beige lace, a white envelope with the message "Locks from head of E.B., age 3 cut by mother & kept by her & found in her effects at her death" written in blue ink on the outside. Both envelope and hair are stored in a pale blue Players Navy Cut Cigarettes Mild metal container (14.8 x 11.8) gold trim, picture of sailor inside life buoy in upper left corner.
- Subject
- Earle Birney
- Credit
- Gift of Earle Birney, Toronto, 1969
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.1005 a-c
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