Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressings, Isle of Wight, #4 (A Pair) victorian old maid These wonderful drawings of horses

These wonderful drawings of horses (one on each side) remind me so much of Native American ledger drawings (which are some of my favorite things in the world)

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

I believe likely with stuffed cloth legs and booted feet as well

Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressings, Isle of Wight, #4 (A Pair) victorian old maid These wonderful drawings of horsesThese 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