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What do you do to pass the time

July 28, 2024

What do you do to pass the time

You need a hobby, particularity if a Napoleonic Prisoner of war, stuck on a small island and or lousy cramped prison.

In Dieppe as with many places in the world they had a specialist for carving, and obviously some prisoners picked up the skill, having little and certainly not ivory and expensive and much prized product used mutton and cow bones to make items.

Sometime whole galleons with amazing fine detail, this item pictured a little more utilitarian and practical.

Being very practical, one of their other talents was making boxes and items from scraps of wood and making out of straw even dyeing and colouring the most intricate deigns of their homes and previous lives, using the straw as a sort of parquetry inlay, to make pictures and designs.

Hours and work and talented skill goes into these items from the c1800.  





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