Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight, #2 antique slide front mounts as it has absorbed a

as it has absorbed a bit of that

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

Details are best for color of both ink and paper

and rust creeping in around the edges

Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight, #2 antique slide front mounts as it has absorbed aThis 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