Victorian Sea Moss Composition with Cut Paper Horn, Mid 19th Century, Period Oak Frame trinket box 24 numbered pages

24 numbered pages

I am pretty sure it is more than 100 years old

7 3/8 alone

just of this sort

and based on the hairstyle and the manner of the painting I believe likely dates to the first quarter of the 19th century

Victorian Sea Moss Composition with Cut Paper Horn, Mid 19th Century, Period Oak Frame trinket box 24 numbered pagesOccasionally 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