Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight #6 vintage box Two original nails attaching one

Two original nails attaching one end of the handle to the box have been replaced with screws

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

it's quite a thing

The back side is painted in the same manner as the front

Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight #6 vintage box Two original nails attaching oneThis 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