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A Napoleonic prisoner-of-war straw work box, of rectangular outline, decorated with foliate motifs and town scenes, with one dummy drawer above one long drawer, the rising cover with stained panel to the inside showing a townscape, with two subsidiary covers showing a church to the obverse and a flower to the reverse, above compartmented parquetry interior, French, early 19th century -- 10½in.(27cm.) wide.
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