Unsually Large and Wild Feeling Page of Victorian Seaweed Specimens ice fishing box I believe this beauty dates

I believe this beauty dates from the 1920s or maybe 30s

or someone else took to using it to record the deaths of family members and friends--and of the "old horse

with very sweet row of painted flowers framing the front door

with 1 1/2" tall lip

as if she's pushing her way through the world

Unsually Large and Wild Feeling Page of Victorian Seaweed Specimens ice fishing box I believe this beauty datesSo lovely. I've had lots of individual seaweed moss specimens, and a couple of albums of them too, but I've never had, or seen, a very large sheet of them like this, which to my eye has a wonderful sort of wildness and extra visceral feeling to it like the salty sea itself. With tiny cut strips tethering the samples to the page, making it feel especially akin to a page from a large herbarium. A great one to frame simply, exactly as is, striking from a