SOLD Early 19th Century Domed Prisoner of War Straw Work Box thermos And I have not been

And I have not been able to find another like him out there anywhere

2 3/4" across at base

Paper size of drawing: 7" x 4 1/2"

With a wonderful little bee/wasp buzzing around too

SOLD Early 19th Century Domed Prisoner of War Straw Work Box thermos And I have not beenIt 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