Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight #5 sticks Yellow roof: 4 1/4" wide

Yellow roof: 4 1/4" wide and deep

Hand-turned

I’ve just leaned (my ignorance) that the image is referred to as “Rock of Ages

or another creature following close on his heels

Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight #5 sticks Yellow roof: 4 1/4" wideThis 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