Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight, #2 antique slide front mounts and the irregularities make it

and the irregularities make it really beautiful

but everything else seems to be in place

Details are best for color of both ink and paper

I'm not sure if these wonderful tiny carved wooden spoons were made for a dollhouse or what

Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight, #2 antique slide front mounts and the irregularities make itThis 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