Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight #7 caramel and light as a feather

and light as a feather

Much more recently he gained a black painted wooden base into which the metal post at his bottom end will fit

matted and framed in a simple black metal frame with the sticker of the framer (Cadey Framing

including a 1850-60s photo featuring a group of likely abolitionists standing in front of Harriet Beecher Stowe's home in Andover

Pretty fabulous I think

Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight #7 caramel and light as a featherThis is among the two largest 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 initialed on back, and a few like this one unsigned, 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