Painterly Pinks, Lovely Victorian Mounted Sea Moss Specimen antique tobacco silk Great melted condition

Great melted condition

and this very sculptural one have a great sort of Rube Goldberg feel about it

Every sort of bud looks lovely in it

much loved condition

1 1/16" cubes and in good much used condition

Painterly Pinks, Lovely Victorian Mounted Sea Moss Specimen antique tobacco silk Great melted conditionI come across lone sea moss samples now and then, which tend to show their age and some related losses, but this just a beauty of an example, very painterly and lush and ethereal feeling, as if still rippling in the current, under the sea. Paper 8 7 8" x 5 11 16". Very good condition, 19th century, securely mounted to good weight paper.