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Materials: Large bouquet, corsage,
head-piece and assorted pieces: Wax, cloth leaves, silk thread wrapped
wire, starched bobbin lace, paper cone, ivory silk damask ribbon and
original cardboard box.
Condition: Excellent. The large bridal
bouquet is near perfect. On other pieces the wax has aged to a rich
sepia; some orange blossom buds have come loose (easily repaired). The
headpiece and bouquet probably come from different sets as the blossom
shapes are slightly different.
Measurements: Wedding bouquet measures
12" by 8".
Comments: Wax orange blossoms were hand
assembled in France and called "parure de mariee" (marriage
ornaments). Boxed sets were imported into the US from France in huge
quantities during the last half of the 19th century.
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