Incredible Late 18th/Early 19th Century Prisoner of War Book Shaped Straw Work Sewing Box with Four Inlaid Watercolors stone-cut print There are a couple pf

There are a couple pf tiny flea bites to one post of the cage

a handsome

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

I've had a few sets of Naef blocks with this same form as these

I'd never seen another like it

Incredible Late 18th/Early 19th Century Prisoner of War Book Shaped Straw Work Sewing Box with Four Inlaid Watercolors stone-cut print There are a couple pfThe 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