Unsually Large and Wild Feeling Page of Victorian Seaweed Specimens ice fishing box and the chalk drawings on

and the chalk drawings on both sides of the slate--which I believe are quite old--feel extra special to me for having endured

I've always got an eye out for vintage DLM (Developmental  Learning Materials) sets produced in the 60s and 70s for use in schools

with very sweet row of painted flowers framing the front door

I am pretty certain these are American

struck me as especially beautiful

Unsually Large and Wild Feeling Page of Victorian Seaweed Specimens ice fishing box and the chalk drawings onSo lovely. I've had lots of individual seaweed moss specimens, and a couple of albums of them too, but I've never had, or seen, a very large sheet of them like this, which to my eye has a wonderful sort of wildness and extra visceral feeling to it like the salty sea itself. With tiny cut strips tethering the samples to the page, making it feel especially akin to a page from a large herbarium. A great one to frame simply, exactly as is, striking from a