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Bridal tiara/crescent

Emily P. Reynolds Historic Costume Collection

 

Victor Knell

 

Ancestral village: Teplitz and Brienne, Bessarabia

 

Item number: 2003.06.02

 

Bridal tiara/crescent attached to floor-length veil of white tulle net, edged with two-inch wide white lace. This bridal tiara is white satin rayon, stiffened with clear wax and embroidered with pearlized beige seed beads and white seed beads in a seven-scalloped motif with wax coated beige paper calla lilies attached on each end of nine-inch crescent where veil lace border is attached.

 

Date: circa 1940

 

Collection Finding Aid: library.ndsu.edu/repository/handle/10365/21597

 

Accession Number: 2003.06

 

Collection Number: 079

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