Antique Pressed Seaweed Specimen #7, c. 1850s San Pacific It would once have had

It would once have had a little flip down cigarette rest inside

I'd like to think this basket has had a long

and then can be collected by opening the flap at the bottom front

and was immediately smitten

This one portrays the phases of Venus as observed between 1833 and 1836 by astronomists Wilhelm Wolff Beer (Prussian) and Johann Heinrich Mädler (German)

Antique Pressed Seaweed Specimen #7, c. 1850s San Pacific It would once have hadSince 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 bunch 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, Scotland, so I'd