Victorian Sea Moss Specimens Album with Manuscript Poems, Boothbay Harbor and Nantucket antique hand-pain ted fan It closes just right against

It closes just right against the carved face of the box

Great old chippy white paint on both sides (the white in photos varies a bit

Eli Frederick Moses' eye

which I think rather transcends its original function to read almost like a text piece by Jenny Holzer

which I don’t think detract at all

Victorian Sea Moss Specimens Album with Manuscript Poems, Boothbay Harbor and Nantucket antique hand-pain ted fan It closes just right againstI've had a few Victorian sea moss albums and booklets over the years, but this the first with handwritten verses to accompany the mosses on every page. "Was this the fringe of a sea nymph's robe Caught in the door of a coral cave Loosened by waters that span the globe And tossed ashore on a foamy wave?" Very Victorian indeed! The maker of this was clearly devoted to the effort, and in most cases documented the type of sea moss and also where it was