#pow model

[ltwilliammowett]

Exquisite Prisoner of War boxwood ship model made by French Prisoners of War in British prisons from 1775 until Napoleon’s defeat at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. 

This incredible survivor from that splendid era is of a full-rigged, 3-masted 90 gun British ship of the line with the delicately-carved ivory figurehead of Neptune holding a spear.  It flies the British ensign from the foremast, the long commissioning pennant streaming from the main and the squadron flag from the mizzen.  The large British man-o-war flag flies from the spanker.

[ltwilliammowett]

Small wooden model of a Ship of the line, made by a british Prisoner of War in France, early 19th century, height c. 18cm, width 17,3cm