All things worn on the head. This includes hair combs, bandeaus, tiaras, fascinators and headbands.
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1 1920's Head dress Originally purchased from a studio lot in London that closed in the 1960's. It was used in the silent film era. All components appear to be Czech.
2 Side View
3 Detailed Side View
4 Victorian Theatrical headpiece Part of Dame Ellen Terry's costume ( First Dame of the British Theater ) for Cleopatra and Anthony - 1886.
5 Art Deco Bird Head Dress How confident must one have been to wear such a thing!
6 flapper with wide headband
7 Massive Starburst Flapper Bandeau This is the largest badeau I have ever seen. It dwarfs all the others. This one doesn't have rings to put an elastic through like the others. It has pastes on tiger tale chain all around and is not adjustable.
8 Back View
9 Side View
10 Flat View
11 Edwardian Paste Crown
12 P1017061
13 Edwardian Starburst Tiara
14 Side View
15 Edwardian Half Moon Tiara
16 Side View
17 Peigne Josephine Comb With Bees This is probably my favourite piece in my collection. It is made of enamelled balls with gold lines centered by a very royal French bee. C. 1830.
18 Side View
19 Closer View
20 Back View
21 Georgian natural seed pearl Suite
22 Closer View
23 Side View
24 Back View
25 Georgianladywithtiara
26 Tiara in Suffrage Colours
27 Back View
28 Side View
29 Georgian Aigrette Blue Vauxhall C.1820
30 Closer View
31 Back View
32 Garnet Comb C.1900
33 Back View
34 Silver Paste Greek Key Tiara One of my favourites, this charmer shows beautifully. C. 1880.
35 Side View
36 Paste and Brass Demi Tiara
37 Back side
38 Paste and Pinchbeck Tiara C. 1820 and English or French
39 Side View
40 Back View
41 Georgian Hearts Tiara
42 Side View
43 Sterling Marcasite Bandeau
44 Closer View
45 P1017263
46 French Jet Demi Tiara
47 Back View
48 Victorian Aigrette in Bird Form
49 Victorian Aigrette in Bird Form Brass enamelled bird with glass garnets. The back once held a cylinder to put feathers in. You can see the tabs that held the cylinder in place in the center.
50 Back View See the edges of the center piece? There are tabs that would of held a tube.
51 Arrow pin The next several "arrows" are the same idea as the arrow pins I have shown. this was made to wear pushed through a chignon or false Apollo knot.
52 Peacock Feather "Arrow"
53 Back View
54 Quiver "Arrow"
55 Closer View
56 Arrow Pin
57 Back View See how originally there were 4 fletchings? One was coiled and hidden at the back of the large round piece!
58 Kondakoora Hairpins/Brooches Set with Semi Precious Stones For years, I have thought these pins to be Georgian and have seen them in books described as such. I recently found a sight that shows that these hairpins are from Sri Lanka and from the late 19th century to early 20th century. There are examples at the British museum so that is good enough for me. See the Picture of the Sinhalese Woman wearing one.
59 Back View of Pins Some have been turned into brooches and others have not.
60 Example on Display at the British Museum My collection consists of silver (some with gold) hairpins set with pink sapphires, blue and clear stones known locally in Sri Lanka as Matara 'diamonds' (white zircons). (Matara is a sea port on the south coast of Sri Lanka from where the stones come.) Known as a kondakoora hairpins, each has an arrow-like end and a boteh-shaped finial. Such hairpins were worn by women in the 'Low Country' regions of Sri Lanka from the 18th through to the early 20th century.
Almost invariably, these are wrongly ascribed to India or Turkey and described as turban ornaments. An early photograph below shows a Sri Lankan woman wearing such a pin in her hair. Later, the fashioned developed in Sri Lanka for the hairpins to be worn as brooches and so many, including eight of the nine examples here, were fitted with long brooch pins on the reverse.
Three examples are illustrated in Cruse (2007, p. 115). Examples also have appeared in Malaysia whe...
61 Singhalese woman
62 Garnet Turban Pin
63 Back View
64 Green Paste Bandeau Sometimes one has to be a detective. When I originally purchase this, I thought it was a choker. It was too big for a choker and it didn't hang right as a necklace. The side green pastes were positioned oddly. Then I tried it on as a bandeau and it fit, and looked perfect.
65 P1017133
66 P1017135
67 Purple paste bandeau
68 Closer View
69 Dragonfly Bandeau
70 Side View
71 Elaborate Paste Bandeau
72 flapper bandeau
73 Side View
74 Bandeau with cylinder for feather This bandeau is silver plated and has a compartment soldered at the back so you can wear a feather with it.
75 P1017155
76 P1017156
77 P1017149
78 P1017150
79 Bandeau with feather Module
80 P1017160
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82 facinator
83 Silver Paste Fascinator with Aigrette Feathers
84 P1017165
85 P1017166
86 P1018309
87 P1018310
88 P1018308
89 P1018311
90 P1017167
91 P1017169
92 P1017170
93 flapper with cig and bandeau
94 P1017171
95 Flapper in Bandeau This is a good picture of a Flapper wearing a typical fishtail construction bandeau.
96 P1017172
97 P1017173
98 P1017174
99 P1017175
100 P1017177
101 Upside down tiara bandeau I never would have thought to wear the crown bandeau upside down but the look is very appealing and I think nicer than wearing it the traditional way.
102 P1017179
103 P1018002
104 P1018003
105 P1018004
106 P1018005
107 Bandeau made with ball chain
108 P1018174
109 P1018175
110 P1018176
111 coloured photo of lady in bandeau
112 Art Nouveau Kokoshnik Style Head piece A kokoshnik is a Russian Head piece worn by North Russian ( and I suspect Norwegian) women. It is worn with a Dress called a Sarafan. A Sarafan is a traditional Russian long, trapeze-shaped jumper dress (pinafore) worn as Russian folk costume by women and girls. This style of head pieces seemed to be copied by fashionistas and was popular between 1890- 1910.
113 P1017181
114 P1017182
115 P1017183
116 P1017184
117 P1017185
118 Josephine style Bandeau
119 Closer View
120 Back view
121 Winged paste bandeau Highly unusual, the pastes are strung on a flexible wire, and the wings on the side are irresistible!
122 P1017190
123 Closer View
124 P1017192
125 P1017193
126 P1017194
127 P1017201
128 P1017202
129 P1017213
130 P1017214
131 brass headband
132 Edwardian Head Piece I have long suspected that this head piece was worn by a showgirl. I have seen quite a few of the exact same headpiece. One Etsy dealer says that she bought hers from a Vaudeville performer's estate Hmmmm, interesting!
133 P1017215
134 P1017217
135 French Lady
136 P1017219
137 Top View
138 Very large natural coral and horn comb
139 Back View
140 Flapper wearing super bandeau
141 coinheaddress
142 Coin headdress
143 Side View
144 peacock
145 French Phoenix Bandeau This beauty came from Paris.
146 French Phoenix Headband Side View
147 women in featherbird headdress
148 P1017242
149 P1017243
150 P1017244
151 P1017245
152 P1017246
153 Juliette cap Made of tigertail chain and pastes. C. 1930
154 Juliette cap
155 Alice Band
156 Alice Band With Large Flower
157 Closer View
158 Celluloid Paste Bandeau
159 Side View
160 P1017265
161 P1017267
162 fabric bandeau
163 Pair Of Chinese Hair Pins Silver coiled wire with Kingfisher feathers and Peking Glass.
164 Closer View
165 Winged hair comb with peacock eye cabs
166 P1017241
167 P1017240
168 P1017236
169 P1017238
170 Georgian Scottish Hand Made Silver Comb
171 P1017199
172 P1017200
173 French Hair comb Rococo style with intricate piercing. Gold gilt .
174 P1017196
175 P1017197
176 P1018305
177 P1018307
178 P1018306
179 A stunning Georgian portrait Lady with aigrette.18th century venetian aristocratic, Elisabetta Querini.
