Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight, #3 adam and eve 10" long x 7" tall

10" long x 7" tall x 3 1/2" deep

with bait on the end

this great old handmade donkey

and that there was at least one version of him that came with a little cub that he pushed along in front of him as he walked

Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight, #3 adam and eve 10" long x 7" tallThis 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