Another reason to use chain is that the design means whatever is used to string the beads shows through in places: [ATTACH]
Lenin in cap: [IMG]
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As for the cap, he looks a bit old for a public school boy, but maybe this or similar?...
Or a sketch?
That's pretty much how I was seeing it too. I didn't quite think of it that way, but did wonder whether the cap is not military at all. Can't...
I should add that seller is in England & describes it as Celluloid. Photos not adequate to know. This is all pixellated: [ATTACH]
Probably from sometime between her teens & her marriage, so 1907 - 1924.
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