Painterly Pinks, Lovely Victorian Mounted Sea Moss Specimen antique tobacco silk Every sort of bud looks

Every sort of bud looks lovely in it

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

stands squarely

I think 1830s)

Executed in graphite

Painterly Pinks, Lovely Victorian Mounted Sea Moss Specimen antique tobacco silk Every sort of bud looksI 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.