Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight, #3 adam and eve as the lid sits at

as the lid sits at just the slightest bit off square (maybe 1-2 degrees)

10 1/4" l x 3 1/4" d x 5" t

or re-papered

Maybe it's because it's a gray January as I post them

which reads more as dark brown now

Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight, #3 adam and eve as the lid sits atThis 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