Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressings, Isle of Wight, #4 (A Pair) the embossing company It opens with ease

It opens with ease

Jason Seley

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Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressings, Isle of Wight, #4 (A Pair) the embossing company It opens with easeThese 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