SOLD Early 19th Century Domed Prisoner of War Straw Work Box zoological There is an old tear

There is an old tear down the center

The maker of this would have carefully arranged these leaves and hand-cut stenciled letters on top of the paper then finely spattered ink all over

Altogether just right

with what looks to be a little staining along the bottom edge of the photo

SOLD Early 19th Century Domed Prisoner of War Straw Work Box zoological There is an old tearIt 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