Pierced Bone Sewing Box

Description

Attributed to the French prisoner Johann De La Paz, Norman Cross Prison, Huntingdonshire, England, late 18th/early 19th century
The hinged lid with a pierced central reserve surrounded by pierced, scrolled and incised borders, opens to a pale pink paper-lined interior.
Height 2 1/4 inches, width 8 1/4 inches, depth 6 3/4 inches.

Provenance:
The Lloyd Collection sale, August 7, 1988, Kennebunk, Maine, Lot 61.

Literature: See J. Welles Henderson sale, August 16, 2008, Portsmouth, NH, lot 845, for a very similar box, and Norman Flayderman, Scrimshaw and Scrimshanders, pp. 248, 249, for another very similar box.

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Pierced Bone Sewing Box

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