Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight, #2 antique slide front mounts as if its maker had

as if its maker had a sake to two before embarking on their task

as it has absorbed a bit of that

The box shows some wear and staining

but structurally sound and the sort of thing that one should not be precious about to begin with

cream newsprint-like pages and handwritten text

Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight, #2 antique slide front mounts as if its maker hadThis is one of a handful of small seaweed pressings I purchased together, which I think are just exquisitely beautiful! A few of them are signed and dated at bottom, others like this one initialed on back (C. A. S), so they represent the work of a few different people, most likely young women, among whom seaweed collecting and pressing was quite the thing during the Victorian era. I love the fact that making these represented not just a burgeoning