Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressings, Isle of Wight, #4 (A Pair) 1940s german the two splits on the

the two splits on the lid of the box were very well repaired with glue at some point

with the sullen subject reluctantly sitting for the portrait

I'd guess he is German or Dutch

I'm not completely sure

Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressings, Isle of Wight, #4 (A Pair) 1940s german the two splits on theThese two small seaweed pressings are among a handfulI purchased together, which I think are just exquisitely beautiful! A few of them are signed and dated at bottom, others initialed on back (the smaller of these two is initialed 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