SOLD Early 19th Century Domed Prisoner of War Straw Work Box zoological the splatter to the card

the splatter to the card at left for me rather adds to the effect

until his death at the age of 55

There is an old tear down the center

Altogether just right

SOLD Early 19th Century Domed Prisoner of War Straw Work Box zoological the splatter to the cardIt is only recently that I began to pay attention to straw work, also called straw marquetry, but I've become deeply enamored with it. Boxes of this sort are most often described as Napoleonic prisoner of war work, made in England in prisoner of war camps and prison ships, late 18th earlier 19th century, though they draw on centuries prior Far Eastern and European traditions, and continued to be made later. Not unlike tramp art a century later, they