Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight, #3 adam and eve this great old handmade donkey

this great old handmade donkey

which reads more as dark brown now

and that there was at least one version of him that came with a little cub that he pushed along in front of him as he walked

10 1/4" l x 3 1/4" d x 5" t

Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight, #3 adam and eve this great old handmade donkeyThis is one of a handful of small seaweed pressings I purchased together, which I think are just exquisitely beautiful! A few of them, like this one, are signed and dated at bottom, others initialed on , 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 interest in the