Antique Hair Receiver Receptacle Silver Glass Niello

This is a victorian hair receiver or hair receptacle made by the Queen City Silver Company of Cinncinati, Ohio USA 1890-1910 and was a part of every victorian woman's vanity set. This particular piece is of pressed glass with a damascened or niello silverplate lid. The hair receiver measures 2.5 inches high by 5 inches in diameter. It is in excellent condition. Hair was collected from hair brushes etc and saved by being pushed thorugh the hole in the lid, and then woven, curled, teased etc. into hair pieces, commemorative and memorial jewelry, arrangements and wreaths. Hair art was considered a genteel and suitable activity for ladies of fashion to do in the victorian era. Shipping in the US by USPS priority insured.