A spin-off from the PoW industry

NOT the priciest offering at Exeter auctioneers Hampton & Littlewood (15% buyer’s premium) on January 30, but undoubtedly the most interesting was this early 19th century automaton right, made from bone.

The vendor believed the spinning jenny to be the work of a Napoleonic Prisoner of War and certainly …

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