Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight #5 large plate I really like its combination

I really like its combination of specific details and loose gestures

with all of their arms still very firmly attached and smoothly swinging

with the posts perfect for stacking rings and things

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Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight #5 large plate I really like its combinationThis 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