Antique Pressed Seaweed Specimen Large Cross, c. 1850s lunch box Another beautiful old brush

Another beautiful old brush

The shorter has a hairline crack on the underside of the base

Painting mostly with house paint on plywood or cardboard

which filled me with satisfying visions of throwing this across the yard when in need of release

and from others as two boulders

Antique Pressed Seaweed Specimen Large Cross, c. 1850s lunch box Another beautiful old brushSince finding a bundle of antique seaweed pressings from the Isle of Wight a few months ago, I've been looking for more, and so was thrilled to recently find a portfolio of seven of them. They came nicely preserved inside a large piece of paper with folded edges, with "Specimens of Sea Weeds for Mrs. Bindle" hand written on the front. There is a watermark on one piece dated 1852 with the printer name A. Pirie & Sons, who were located in Aberdeen,