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Rare Museum quality Napoleonic straw work writing compendium,…
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Sydney
Date:
11-Mar-2023
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Rare Museum quality Napoleonic straw work writing compendium, early 19th century, in the form of a bureau, with a hinged curved top opening to compartments, above a lower roll top and slide, set with fitted drawers above a series of lower drawers behind a fall front, the body highly decorated with geometric motifs, set with central centurion figure and carved ivory handles, 41 x 35.5 x 26 cm. Other Notes: this appears to be a commercially made box. Many of these boxes are Napoleonic 'Prisoners of War' boxes, as these prisoners created such straw work enabling them to trade or barter for other necessities. Published: Antique Boxes: Inside and Out, colour plate 652
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Unclassified