Sometimes you just love it when you stumble across something at our local provence brocante markets that has been so lovingly tucked away and cared for. 
 
This card board box dating from the early 1900's with a paper label at one side and hand written discription in French of millinery flowers and leaves. 
 
The collection comprises:
 
-12 tear dropped silk leaves and two branches of the same leaves in a gorgeous blue silk on paper wrapped wire stems
 
-three bundles of green leaves on paper wrapped wire stems. 
 
-a large groupd of pinkish/purplish leaves on paper wrapped stems
 
--two large blue velvet blossoms with stamens at the center
 
--five large blue silk petals with nice details
 
-a group of silk velvet leaves in stuning ombre shades of blue to white at the base with wire stems
 
-a cluster of leaves with some ribbonwork rosettes 
 
--a long wreath like strands with several small bundles of millinery flowers and stamens attached to it. 
 
-a bundle of purple fabric millinery flowers on floppy fabric stems
 
-a bundle of red fabric millinery flowers on floppy fabric stems
 
-two bundle sof green millinery fabric flowers on wire stems
 
Photos are a good representation of actual color and condition. 

Measurements
 
Range in size but to give you an idea 
 
The large velvet blue blossoms measure 
 
approx. 12  x 12 cm 
 
silk velvet leaves 
 
7 x 4.3 at widest (just the leaf not including the stems)
 
Pinkish/purplish leaves are about the same as the silk velvet leaves. 
 
Condition
 
Left in "as found" condition.Overall good condition with normal signs of age.  You will undoubtedly want to steam the corsages to make them pop and straighten out some stems. 
 
Box included with the lot. 
 
Shipping
 
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