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cream newsprint-like pages and handwritten text

I'm not sure if these wonderful tiny carved wooden spoons were made for a dollhouse or what

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Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight, #2 antique slide front mounts as it has absorbed aThis 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 initialed on back (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 not just a burgeoning