Victorian Sea Moss Composition with Cut Paper Horn, Mid 19th Century, Period Oak Frame trinket box 8 1/2" straight across

8 1/2" straight across

just of this sort

beautiful old handmade boat could use a proper stand

I am pretty sure it is more than 100 years old

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 8 1/2" straight acrossOccasionally 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