Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight #6 knife tray with straight handle I'd guess the wonderfully gesturing

I'd guess the wonderfully gesturing arms were once covered in gray velvet or maybe faux fur

but with a big presence

but I can at least make out "Millie" on one side

Plus Harry's very serious portrait at the center of each

but also because they make a largely black and white wardrobe far more exciting

Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight #6 knife tray with straight handle I'd guess the wonderfully gesturingThis is one of the largest among 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 this one is 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 represented not