This is actually an example of a Victorian era mouth decoration, which would be worn sort of like reverse dentures throughout the mid nineteenth century. If the picture were turned round the other way we would see that beneath the antlers on the back is a small hunting lodge style fireplace, and this would serve to improve the interior design of one's oral cavity in keeping with the rustic aesthetics most popular in English society during this period, and would have been an indispensable fashion of the day. The fad soon died out however after several Lords and Ladies began dying suddenly of smoke inhalation at fancy dress parties, and everyone agreed that it was very difficult to make polite conversation while wearing one.

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