Incredible Late 18th/Early 19th Century Prisoner of War Book Shaped Straw Work Sewing Box with Four Inlaid Watercolors stone-cut print 4 3/4" x 4 1/16"

4 3/4" x 4 1/16" x 1 3/4"

a few filled on both sides but most on front side only (he numbered each page front and back for a total of 88 pp

They measure 3 1/2" in diameter and 1 1/8" tall and are in very good vintage condition

There are a few illustrations including two figures--only possible obviously if one found another

Incredible Late 18th/Early 19th Century Prisoner of War Book Shaped Straw Work Sewing Box with Four Inlaid Watercolors stone-cut print 4 3/4" x 4 1/16"The 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