Napoleonic Prisoners of War and Lace Bobbins
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A 2020 web article by Brian Lemin asking whether French Napoleonic prisoners of war in Britain made bone lace bobbins. It quotes sources on parole towns and on prisoners making lace at Portchester, and reproduces part of an earlier Lemin and Diana Smith article on the 'Nelson' bobbin. It then examines a 'Victoria' Mother-and-Babe bobbin inscribed 'Victoria Reigns 1837 to 1897 / Happy Jubilee', comparing its carving, neck, lettering and numerals with the Nelson bobbin. Lemin concludes that both could be PoW work, probably by prisoners who settled in England, but that the Victoria bobbin looks doubtful and may be modern.
- Type
- Web Doc
- Date
- 2020
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 12
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