Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressings, Isle of Wight, #4 (A Pair) victorian old maid and one blank page) plus

and one blank page) plus a few pages of old notes tucked in

best known for her wood engravings like this one

one for the blade--it is structurally sound and ready to put to use opening the bills

Surely a must-have for a lover of all things cat

with one tiny nick along the edge of one hook

Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressings, Isle of Wight, #4 (A Pair) victorian old maid and one blank page) plusThese 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