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Collector restores wax wedding 'crown'

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Toni Skelley, of Decatur, holds the delicate wax crown adorned with tiny white, wax blossoms worn by her grandmother Pauline Bucher when she married in 1895.

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It's hard to imagine what brides wore nearly 120 years ago, but Decatur sisters Toni Skelley and Martha McNamara were able to look into the past when they received a wedding headpiece their grandmother, Pauline Bucher, wore when she married in 1895. "Our mother had it when our grandma died, and then when our mother passed away, I got it," Skelley of the a delicate wax crown adorned with tiny white, wax blossoms. "I wanted to use it in my wedding, but we realized it was too squished to use."