Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight #6 knife tray with straight handle 8 3/8" l x 6

8 3/8" l x 6 3/16" t x 4 3/4" w and in great condition

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

with dings and scrapes and some dryness to the wood

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Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight #6 knife tray with straight handle 8 3/8" l x 6This 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