Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight, #2 antique slide front mounts but everything else seems to

but everything else seems to be in place

cream newsprint-like pages and handwritten text

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

and rust creeping in around the edges

Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight, #2 antique slide front mounts but everything else seems toThis 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