Spinning top
Prisoner-of-war
Category
Objets de vertu
Date
Unknown
Materials
Bone, Textile
Measurements
29 x 22 mm
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1339435
Summary
Miniature bone spinning top. The body decorated with three bands of thin black incisions around the circumference. Perpendicular handle with two bands of thin black incisions near either end. Thread with small bone ball attached to the end (not attached to whole). Prisoner-of-war work.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
Makers and roles
Prisoner-of-war