Unsually Large and Wild Feeling Page of Victorian Seaweed Specimens young woman and love how the instinct

and love how the instinct to decorate through carving manifests in/on objects from most every culture

and color is even more beautiful than photos convey

and just about as sweet and committed a record of hunting achievements as I've ever seen

and it seems to be quite a rare one--an early trade card for the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co

Some wear as evident but who cares

Unsually Large and Wild Feeling Page of Victorian Seaweed Specimens young woman and love how the instinctSo lovely. I've had lots of individual seaweed moss specimens, and a couple of albums of them too, but I've never had, or seen, a very large sheet of them like this, which to my eye has a wonderful sort of wildness and extra visceral feeling to it like the salty sea itself. With tiny cut strips tethering the samples to the page, making it feel especially akin to a page from a large herbarium. A great one to frame simply, exactly as is, striking from a