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Victorian Momento Mori Shadow Box with Lock of Hair

Victorian Momento Mori Shadow Box with Lock of Hair

Regular price $575.00 CAD
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Victorian Momento Mori shadow box framed of Jane Davison, who passed on November 1886. Rests in Hallowet Cemetery, near Belfast Ireland.

Moemento Mori is a Latin phrase meaning 'remember you must die', a symbolic reminder of the inevitability of death.

Postmortem photography or memento mori, was common practice of photographing a deceased person, collecting of hair or momento pieces added for remembrance.

This one contains hair locks.

Dimensions: H 14" X W 12" X D 1.5"

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