Sold for:
$390
$390
Two Small Souvenir Albums with Collections of Seaweed, possibly Jamaica, late 19th century, the albums each containing six pages with varieties of dried and pressed seaweed with ink-stamped identifications, the album covers, according to the inscription on the last page, are made "from the vertebrae of the whale killed in Montego Bay, and buried in the ground and used as side walk for over 25 years," approx. 5 x 6 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-03-03
