Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight, #2 antique slide front mounts which photos do not capture

which photos do not capture well

as if its maker had a sake to two before embarking on their task

but everything else seems to be in place

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

Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight, #2 antique slide front mounts which photos do not captureThis 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