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Napoleonic p-o-w games box

Code: POW 3

Dimensions:W: 8cm  (3.1")H: 6cm  (2.4")L: 22.5cm  (8.9")

Website: https://www.antiquesboutique.com/antique-games/napoleonic-p-o-w-games-box/itm87527

A super games box made around 1800 by French prisoners of war housed on hulk boats on the Thames. This box has a cribbage marker board on the top; a domed lid which is hinged; an inner protective sliding cover - and a set of dominoes. Everything was made from pork bones  from the kitchens on the boats and made for sale to passing people on the dockside - this was a way of occupying the prisoners - many of whome were skilled French joiners and cabinet makers who had been conscripted in to French navy.

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