Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressings, Isle of Wight, #4 (A Pair) 1940s german with the sullen subject reluctantly

with the sullen subject reluctantly sitting for the portrait

8 1/2" wide x 8 1/2 tall x 1 7/8" deep

and of the brilliance of artist

The glass is very thin and light and etched with a maker

Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressings, Isle of Wight, #4 (A Pair) 1940s german with the sullen subject reluctantlyThese two small seaweed pressings are among a handfulI purchased together, which I think are just exquisitely beautiful! A few of them are signed and dated at bottom, others initialed on back (the smaller of these two is initialed 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