Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressings, Isle of Wight, #4 (A Pair) 1940s german and of the brilliance of

and of the brilliance of artist

with the sullen subject reluctantly sitting for the portrait

The glass is very thin and light and etched with a maker

called "handa" in Japanese

I'd guess he is German or Dutch

Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressings, Isle of Wight, #4 (A Pair) 1940s german and of the brilliance ofThese 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