Envelope containing hair from A. Porrer, Artist in Hair & Jewellery "By Appointment of the Queen" Regent Street

A 5 1/2" x 3 1/2" envelope. The front is elaborately decorations and contains informatin on a. Porrer, Artist in Hair & Jewellery -- By appoinment to the Queen". Received prize and service medals at the Great Exhibition in 1851. A penned note on the reverse indicates this is the hair left of a Hair quaff change and the fee. Dated June 5, 1880. For H. A. Heck, DeWarren House, North Flat. Within the envelope is the hair, wrapped in tissue with Porrer's wafer seal and a second label with a current address.