Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressings, Isle of Wight, #4 (A Pair) victorian old maid The paper has darkened some

The paper has darkened some with age

and one blank page) plus a few pages of old notes tucked in

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)

with one tiny nick along the edge of one hook

Surely a must-have for a lover of all things cat

Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressings, Isle of Wight, #4 (A Pair) victorian old maid The paper has darkened someThese 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