Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressings, Isle of Wight, #4 (A Pair) 1940s german and forward stretched arm

and forward stretched arm

with the sullen subject reluctantly sitting for the portrait

8 1/2" wide x 8 1/2 tall x 1 7/8" deep

I'm not completely sure

I'd guess he is German or Dutch

Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressings, Isle of Wight, #4 (A Pair) 1940s german and forward stretched armThese 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