Victorian Sea Moss Composition with Cut Paper Horn, Mid 19th Century, Period Oak Frame trinket box just of this sort

just of this sort

beautiful old handmade boat could use a proper stand

10 1/4" t x 8 9/16" d and in very good condition

I am pretty sure it is more than 100 years old

24 numbered pages

Victorian Sea Moss Composition with Cut Paper Horn, Mid 19th Century, Period Oak Frame trinket box just of this sortOccasionally I'll see a Victorian dried flower composition with a cut paper element, but I don't believe I've ever seen a sea moss picture like this before, with that black paper horn evoking a theorem painting stencil as well as nodding to a cut paper silhouette portrait, and I think locating it c. 1850s or so. I love sea moss pressings of all sorts (including for the fact that sea moss gathering represented an acceptable way for young women to get