Painterly Pinks, Lovely Victorian Mounted Sea Moss Specimen antique tobacco silk and this very sculptural one

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

The reader itself shows a 1909 copyright and features a series of stories about animals and people with some nice illustrations

embracing a sweetheart - while looking straight at us with an expression that seems some combination of eager and sly

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

Painterly Pinks, Lovely Victorian Mounted Sea Moss Specimen antique tobacco silk and this very sculptural oneI 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.