Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight #6 vintage box it's quite a thing

it's quite a thing

though there are two available

The back side is painted in the same manner as the front

The round form with tall edge is perfectly imperfect

Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight #6 vintage box it's quite a thingThis is one of the largest among 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 initialed on back, and this one is unsigned 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