Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight, #3 mechanical bird with no chips or significant

with no chips or significant scratches

Robert Tait McKenzie (1867-1938)

I found this one

such that it can be rotated a full 180 degrees

with a charming horse at the center of each side

Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight, #3 mechanical bird with no chips or significantThis is one of a handful of small seaweed pressings I purchased together, which I think are just exquisitely beautiful! A few of them, like this one, are signed and dated at bottom, others initialed on , 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 interest in the