Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight, #2 antique slide front mounts and rust creeping in around

and rust creeping in around the edges

I'm not sure if these wonderful tiny carved wooden spoons were made for a dollhouse or what

It is made of either celluloid or bakelite and at bottom right reads Pat'd Oct 12

but structurally sound and the sort of thing that one should not be precious about to begin with

cream newsprint-like pages and handwritten text

Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight, #2 antique slide front mounts and rust creeping in aroundThis 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