Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight #7 travel writing box I quite like the inherent

I quite like the inherent dilemma it represents: a lovely

but I really love the "WHITE" and "BLACK" carved at the opposite ends of this one

4" tall including post

but I know that the different color wooden spheres are meant to represent different elements--hydrogen

and super wearable

Victorian Dried Seaweed Pressing, Isle of Wight #7 travel writing box I quite like the inherentThis is among the two largest of 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 a few like this one 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