Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight, #1 tall vase 6 3/8" diameter x 2

6 3/8" diameter x 2 1/2" tall

Really a very lovely little piece

but this piece is in good overall condition

But most of all I love the animals that inhabit it: those wading flamingoes

Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight, #1 tall vase 6 3/8" diameter x 2This is the first of a handful of small seaweed pressings I purchased together, which I think are just exquisitely beautiful! A few of them, including this one, are signed and dated (1867 I believe, though possibly 1887) at bottom, others initialed on back, 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