Lush Victorian Sea Moss Composition with Cut Paper Urn, Mid 19th Century, Period Oak Frame storage jars looking a bit like a

looking a bit like a pipe and a bit like a whistle and a bit like a shoe too

This one got me

plus a few more with a little more tearing that I'll send along too

and include the original instruction booklet

Lush Victorian Sea Moss Composition with Cut Paper Urn, Mid 19th Century, Period Oak Frame storage jars looking a bit like aOccasionally I'll see a Victorian dried flower composition with a cut paper element, but I don't believe I've ever seen a sea moss picture like this before, with that black paper urn evoking a theorem painting stencil as well as a cut paper silhouette portrait, and I think locating it c. 1850s or so. I love sea moss pressings of all sorts (including for the fact that sea moss gathering represented an acceptable way for young women to get out in nature