Antique Pressed Seaweed Specimen #6, c. 1850s hand-painted round wooden trinket box keeping one's pennies and quarters

keeping one's pennies and quarters super secure

most clearly done for assignments

What could be better for a camping trip

or as catchalls for all sorts of odds and ends

definitely have it

Antique Pressed Seaweed Specimen #6, c. 1850s hand-painted round wooden trinket box keeping one's pennies and quartersSince finding a bundle of antique seaweed pressings from the Isle of Wight a few months ago, I've been looking for more, and so was thrilled to recently find a portfolio of seven of them. They came nicely preserved inside a large piece of paper with folded edges, with "Specimens of Sea Weeds for Mrs. Bindle" hand written on the front. There is a watermark on one piece dated 1852 with the printer name A. Pirie & Sons, who were located in Aberdeen,