Victorian Sea Moss Specimens Album with Manuscript Poems, Boothbay Harbor and Nantucket vintage caricature drawing with this young man in

with this young man in suit jacket

glaze shows some variation

shows age and a couple of tiny chips around the lip

and a lot of it

Victorian Sea Moss Specimens Album with Manuscript Poems, Boothbay Harbor and Nantucket vintage caricature drawing with this young man inI've had a few Victorian sea moss albums and booklets over the years, but this the first with handwritten verses to accompany the mosses on every page. "Was this the fringe of a sea nymph's robe Caught in the door of a coral cave Loosened by waters that span the globe And tossed ashore on a foamy wave?" Very Victorian indeed! The maker of this was clearly devoted to the effort, and in most cases documented the type of sea moss and also where it was