Victorian Sea Moss Composition with Cut Paper Horn, Mid 19th Century, Period Oak Frame trinket box This is one of a

This is one of a handful of small seaweed pressings I purchased together

and I think provokes the most tender and protective instincts in us as humans

including those two slightly forlorn looking potted plants placed in front of them

otherwise it is in great vintage condition

8 1/2" straight across

Victorian Sea Moss Composition with Cut Paper Horn, Mid 19th Century, Period Oak Frame trinket box This is one of aOccasionally I'll see a Victorian dried flower composition with a cut paper element, but I don't believe I've ever seen a sea moss picture like this before, with that black paper horn evoking a theorem painting stencil as well as nodding to a cut paper silhouette portrait, and I think locating it c. 1850s or so. I love sea moss pressings of all sorts (including for the fact that sea moss gathering represented an acceptable way for young women to get