Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight #5 metallic Like new condition

Like new condition

this striking large black vase is unmarked

and especially about that white horse ethereally floating between earth and sky in front of that bushy tree

and natural bristles

made with real slate that retains a sense of many many years of school lessons performed across its surface--and I believe this is an especially old one (19th c I think)

Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight #5 metallic Like new conditionThis is one of a handful of small seaweed pressings I purchased together, which I think are just exquisitely beautiful! A few of them are signed and dated at bottom, others like this one signed on back (Maggie, in this case), 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 not just a