Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight #6 vintage box The round form with tall

The round form with tall edge is perfectly imperfect

emphasizing the wake at his knees and distant ocean horizon at his waist

I  love this large

it's quite a thing

4 3/8" l x 1 3/4" w x 2 1/8" t

Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight #6 vintage box The round form with tallThis is one of the largest among 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 this one is 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 represented not