Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight #5 sticks but also for the fact

but also for the fact that they somehow escaped the trash heap for me to rather miraculously to discover them buried in a pile at a flea market some 80 years later

or another creature following close on his heels

Yellow roof: 4 1/4" wide and deep

Represented through photographic portraits

The box measures 7" diameter and 3" tall overall

Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight #5 sticks but also for the factThis 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