Incredible Late 18th/Early 19th Century Prisoner of War Book Shaped Straw Work Sewing Box with Four Inlaid Watercolors typewritten light scattered stains and a

light scattered stains and a few tears along the left edge of the paper

Nicely aged

and I've never seen and can't find another tin litho rattle out there with Mary on one side and Jesus on the other

This wonderful carving of a nude woman--who

Incredible Late 18th/Early 19th Century Prisoner of War Book Shaped Straw Work Sewing Box with Four Inlaid Watercolors typewritten light scattered stains and aThe chance of finding and bringing home an object like this is what gets me out of bed early in the morning to go to a show and being a box, this itself embodies opens up as a series of discoveries. (For me this box also very much embodies the joy of looking and learning, as it is only recently that I've been awakened too the extraordinariness of late 18th early 19th century Napoleonic prisoner of war straw work. more on that below). This is a sewing