SOLD Early 19th Century Domed Prisoner of War Straw Work Box thermos with glasses folded to one

with glasses folded to one side in favor of hunching over the paper as he writes

with the small symbols at their centers emblematic of the blessings of life

including for the fact of it having been sealed up tight long ago

though possibly 1887) at bottom

SOLD Early 19th Century Domed Prisoner of War Straw Work Box thermos with glasses folded to oneIt 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