Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressings, Isle of Wight, #4 (A Pair) victorian old maid best known for her wood

best known for her wood engravings like this one

The paper has darkened some with age

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

black painted details and the perfect orange painted base

one for the blade--it is structurally sound and ready to put to use opening the bills

Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressings, Isle of Wight, #4 (A Pair) victorian old maid best known for her woodThese 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