Antique Pressed Seaweed Specimen #1, c. 1850s sphere shaped box I love the composition

I love the composition

this is one I think I'd put in a frame and hang where I'd see it all the time--in part as a reminder to live in the present

smallish tear coming in from the lower left edge

one removes the marble at the center

Just beautiful

Antique Pressed Seaweed Specimen #1, c. 1850s sphere shaped box I love the compositionSince 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 portfolio of seven 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,