Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight #7 vintage educational puzzle I'd free them and keep

I'd free them and keep them lined up as a happy family

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It measures 10 7/8" x 1 1/2" x 5/16"

I found this wonderful box at an estate sale in MA in a modest house packed to the gills with a long lifetime's accumulation

another like this one

Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight #7 vintage educational puzzle I'd free them and keepThis is among the two largest 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 initialed on back, and a few like this one unsigned, 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