Victorian Amateur Pressed Sea Moss Collection--Mixed Lot, As Found shingling hatchet with just bit of wear

with just bit of wear visible in detailed views (see photos

it was executed on a large sheet of gridded paper in what appears to be gouache though perhaps some combination of paint and marker

with a dry kidney bean included

which feels much to the good to me in this case

It appear to me to have quite a bit of age

Victorian Amateur Pressed Sea Moss Collection--Mixed Lot, As Found shingling hatchet with just bit of wearThis is not the work of a master sea moss collector but rather an amateur, who pressed them long ago on a variety of different papers a few 8x11 inch white paper pages, and then a mix of smaller papers, from very thin to card weight. I found them all together in a folder, along with a few scraps of paper and a few loose pressings, a could of which I remounted using clear archival tape. I find a sea moss collection of any sort a wondrous thing, and the