Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight #5 metallic and those beatific little faces

and those beatific little faces

Brushes each measure 8" long x 2 1/2" tall

Like new condition

carved out ears perfectly framing the long slope of a nose

Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight #5 metallic and those beatific little facesThis 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 signed on back (Maggie, in this case), 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