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Prisoner Of War Ship

Rare WWII Italian Prisoner of War Work Model of Italian Cruiser 'Zara'
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
Rare WWII Italian Prisoner of war work model of Italian heavy cruiser 'Zara' with finely detailed
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Vintage 1940s English Models and Miniatures

Model of a War Sailing Ship, Made Out of Bone, United Kingdom, 1793-1815
Located in Milan, IT
A British model of a sailing ship, made out of bone. Made by French prisoners of war (POWs), held
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Antique 1790s English Antiquities

Materials

Bone

Ohio State Parade Flag with a Civil War Veterans Overprint
Located in York County, PA
OHIO STATE FLAG WITH CIVIL WAR VETERANS' OVERPRINT FROM THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC POST IN
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Vintage 1920s American Political and Patriotic Memorabilia

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Cotton

The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945 Hardcover Book by Ken Burns
Located in North Hollywood, CA
liberation of the concentration camps—but we also move among prisoners of war and Japanese American internees
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Early 2000s American Mid-Century Modern Books

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Paper

Original Vintage Travel Poster Arandora Star Luxury Cruise Ship Blue Star Line
Located in London, GB
luxury five cruise liners); she served as a troop ship during World War Two but was hit by a torpedo and
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Vintage 1930s British Posters

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Paper

Guillerme & Chambron Set of Eight 'Fumay' Dining Armchairs, France, 1960s
By Guillerme et Chambron, Votre Maison
Located in ŁÓDŹ, PL
developed a deep friendship under unusual circumstances. During the Second World War, the two met in a
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Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs

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Fabric, Wood

View of the Island Onrust Near Batavia 'Jakarta', Indonesia, 1739
Located in Langweer, NL
(ship island) is an Indonesian island off the coast of Jakarta. It measures about 3.5 km2 (1.4 sq mi
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Antique 1730s Maps

Materials

Paper

Antique Austrian Sterling Silver and Enamel Compact, circa 1940
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
England and Australia. During World War II the ship became a troopship, until the end of the war where it
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Vintage 1940s Austrian Decorative Boxes

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Silver, Sterling Silver, Enamel

1934 Original travel poster for Blue Star Line Mediterranean Cruises - Arandora
Located in PARIS, FR
cruise liners); she served as a troop ship during World War Two but was hit by a torpedo and sunk in June
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1930s Prints and Multiples

Materials

Linen, Paper, Lithograph

Original Vintage Travel Poster Blue Star Line Mediterranean Cruise Arandora Star
Located in London, GB
cruise liners); she served as a troop ship during World War Two but was hit by a torpedo and sunk in June
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Vintage 1930s British Posters

Materials

Paper

Escape to Victory
Located in London, GB
footballers. The film is about a team of Allied World War II prisoners who play a football match against an
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Vintage 1980s British Posters

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Paper

Escape to Victory
Escape to Victory
H 22 in W 29 in D 0.5 in
Portrait on Stage - Red Cape - Scottish 60s art theatrical portrait oil painting
By Doris Zinkeisen
Located in London, GB
rehabilitation and repatriation of prisoners of war and civilian internees. Zinkeisen traveled by lorry or by air
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1960s Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Horses in a Landscape - Scottish 1960's equine art oil painting female artist
By Doris Zinkeisen
Located in London, GB
rehabilitation and repatriation of prisoners of war and civilian internees. Zinkeisen traveled by lorry or by air
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1960s Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil

Frenchman Bay, Mount Desert Island, Maine
By Charles Henry Gifford
Located in Concord, MA
1839. Gifford served in the Civil War from 1862 to 1864, and was a prisoner-of-war in a Confederate
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19th Century Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Still Life with Cakes - Scottish 1950s art still life oil painting female artist
By Doris Zinkeisen
Located in London, GB
work in north west Europe including the rehabilitation and repatriation of prisoners of war and
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1950s Realist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil

Miss Moggy Hennesey on her Hunter - Scottish 60s art horse portrait oil painting
By Doris Zinkeisen
Located in London, GB
prisoners of war and civilian internees. Zinkeisen traveled by lorry or by air (from a nearby RAF base
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1960s Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Venetian School, Ottoman Honey Merchant
Located in London, GB
Christians from the Black Sea and the Balkans, often prisoners of war.  Therefore, the existence of the three
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Early 17th Century Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Blair Hughes-Stanton 'Reclining Nude' abstract oil painting British Surrealism
By Blair Hughes-Stanton
Located in London, GB
captured as a prisoner of war and was imprisoned in a camp. He returned to England after the war.
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Early 20th Century Modern Nude Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Tempera

Landscape - Original Etching by Renzo Biasion - Mid 20th Century
By Renzo Biasion
Located in Roma, IT
drawing in secondary schools. In 1940, when Italy entered World War II, he fought on the Greek-Albanian
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Powerful Hoi Lebadang Abstract Mid Century Lithograph Signed and Numbered
By Hoi Lebadang
Located in Atlanta, GA
War II-era France. The ship unloaded its cargo into the prison at Baumettes and then into arms and
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Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Prints

Materials

Glass, Wood, Paper

The Artist's Studio - Original Etching by Renzo Biasion - 1960s
By Renzo Biasion
Located in Roma, IT
local art school and taught drawing in secondary schools. In 1940, when Italy entered World War II, he
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1960s Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

A Day on the Hill - Etching by Renzo Biasion - 1966
By Renzo Biasion
Located in Roma, IT
drawing in secondary schools. In 1940, when Italy entered World War II, he fought on the Greek-Albanian
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1960s Figurative Prints

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Etching

Westermann and Kapsalis Sculpture at Four Fourteen Art Center Poster
By HC Westermann
Located in New York, NY
Institute. A prisoner of war in Germany, captured during the Battle of the Bulge, Kapsalis returned to
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1950s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Il Gioco del Rocchetto - Lithograph by M. Campigli - 1952
By Massimo Campigli, 1895-1971
Located in Roma, IT
to Hungary where he remained a prisoner of war from 1916-18. At the end of the war he moved to Paris
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1950s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Captain Sir George Collier’s Presentation Silver Entree Dishes by Richard Cooke
By Richard Cooke
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
privateer and for two more years, Collier was confined as a prisoner of war on Mauritius. Returning to
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Antique 19th Century British Historical Memorabilia

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Silver

' Saint Nazaire Special Ops ' Archival Pigment Print - limited edition
By Katherine Russell
Located in London, GB
undertook the raid, 228 returned to Britain, 169 were killed and 215 became prisoners of war. German
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Archival Pigment

Landscape - Original Etching by Renzo Biasion - 1960s
By Renzo Biasion
Located in Roma, IT
entered World War II, he fought on the Greek-Albanian front as a second lieutenant in the infantry and
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1960s Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

WATTS TOWER
By Gloria Stuart
Located in Santa Monica, CA
James Whale’s “The Invisible Man” and with Warner Baxter in John Ford’s “The Prisoner of Shark Island
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1970s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Original Vintage Travel Poster Arandora Star Luxury Cruise Ship Blue Star Line
Located in London, GB
luxury five cruise liners); she served as a troop ship during World War Two but was hit by a torpedo and
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1930s More Prints

Materials

Paper

Original Vintage Travel Poster Blue Star Line Mediterranean Cruise Arandora Star
Located in London, GB
cruise liners); she served as a troop ship during World War Two but was hit by a torpedo and sunk in June
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1930s More Prints

Materials

Paper

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21st Century and Contemporary Books

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Robert Crumb, Sketchbooks 1982-2011
By Robert Crumb
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Three Books on Violins and Violin Makers
By Dirk J. Balfoort, Willibaldd Leo Frh-v-Lütgendorff, John H. Fairfield
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Early 20th Century German Books

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Woman Bust by Vicari Cristoforo White Marble
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Located in Diest, Vlaams Brabant
Woman Bust by Vicari Cristoforo (Italy 1846-1913) Italian artist famous for his woman busts White (Carrara) marble with rests of painted lace on the head and shoulders Signed o...
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Marble

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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Two-Volume Set, 1885-86
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Grant, Ulysses S., Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant. New York: Charles L. Webster and Co., 1885-1886. Two volume set. Octavo, beautifully rebound in quarter green leather and cloth boa...
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Antique 1880s American Books

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Leather, Paper

American Naval Two Masted Clipper Ship Brig Model Under Glass, US Perry 20th C.
Located in Hollywood, SC
American Naval two masted clipper ship brig model mounted on stand under a glass case. The US Perry was a brig commissioned by the United States Navy October 1843 prior to the Americ...
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Royal Navy Ships Grating Table. Indoor or Outdoor Use. Year 1920's
Located in Canterbury, GB
A practical coffee table using a ship's grating (above the captains cabin) with fitted legs. This grating comes from a Royal Navy vessel, is beautifully weathered and would ideally s...
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Vintage 1920s Other Tables

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Wood

Inside Tangier Houses & Gardens Book by Nicolò Castellini Baldissera
Located in New York, NY
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18th Century Rare European Vellum Book
Located in Chicago, IL
18th Century Rare European Vellum book found in Germany.  This book has aged beautifully with exquisite patina. Vellum (derived from the Latin word vitulinum meaning "made fro...
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Architecture of Georgia by and Signed by Frederick Nichols 1st Edition
By Frederick D. Nichols 1
Located in valatie, NY
The Architecture of Georgia by and Signed by Frederick Nichols. Signed 1st Edition. The Beehive Press, Savannah, 1976, hardcover. "This is the first complete survey of Georgia archit...
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Vintage 1970s American Books

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British Textile Design, V&A, London, 1980, Gakken, Tokyo, 3 Volumes
Located in San Francisco, CA
A very rare set of three folio size books on the textile collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum. The books are in linen with gilded letters in Japanese on the spine, each book ...
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Late 20th Century English Books

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Paper

"Rally Freemen!..." Civil War Recruitment Broadside
Located in York County, PA
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The Corvette USS Washington of the Mediterranean Squadron circa 1800
Located in Madrid, ES
Mediterranean Squadron serving ships during the first Barbary War (1801-1805), because the represented
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Outstanding Vessel Model under Glass, Early 19th Century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
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1980s Academic Landscape Paintings

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Excavation, figurative oil painting containing a human skeleton
By Michael Hafftka
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Henri Maik Original Tapestry Hand Woven Signed Animal Portrait Modern Artwork
By Henri Maik
Located in Bloomington, MN
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Prisoner of War Style Ship Model
Located in Norwell, MA
Elaborate Prisoner of War style ship model of an eighty two gun english ship of the line. With hull
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Prisoner of War Style Ship Model
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French Prisoner-of-war Bone Ship Model, HMS Victory
Located in New Orleans, LA
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Napoleonic Prisoner of War boat model
Located in London, GB
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Prisoner of War Battleship Snuff Box
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
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19th Century Napoleonic Prisoner of War Game Set
Located in London, GB
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Antique Ship Snuff Box
Located in Baltimore, MD
Fantastic painted and inlaid wooden ship snuff box made by a French prisoner of war at Sissinghurst
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Located in Stamford, CT
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Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
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Early 19th Century Prisoner of War Bone Model Ship
Located in Lymington, GB
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Napoleonic Prisoner of War Model of a 2nd Rate Ship of 72 Guns
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
inches, puts it in the largest class of prisoner of war models made. On deck the gunnels are carved in a
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Carved Coquilla Nut Napoleonic Prisoner of War Element, French, circa 1810
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
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Located in London, GB
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Y no hai Remedio - Original Etching by Francisco Goya - 1863
By Francisco Goya
Located in Roma, IT
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Art Deco Asprey HM Submarine Unruffled Silver Box, 1941
By Asprey International Limited
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
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Art Deco Asprey HM Submarine Unruffled Silver Box, 1941
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Napoleonic Prisoner of War Bone Ship Model
Located in Washington, DC
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By Mathieu Matégot
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By Henri Maik
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Prisoner Of War Ship For Sale on 1stDibs

Find many varieties of an authentic prisoner of war ship available at 1stDibs. Frequently made of paper, bone and cotton, every prisoner of war ship was constructed with great care. You’ve searched high and low for the perfect prisoner of war ship — we have versions that date back to the 18th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 21st Century are available. A prisoner of war ship is a generally popular piece of furniture, but those created in mid-century modern and folk art styles are sought with frequency. You’ll likely find more than one prisoner of war ship that is appealing in its simplicity, but Paul Wunderlich and Richard Cooke produced versions that are worth a look.

How Much is a Prisoner Of War Ship?

A prisoner of war ship can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price 1stDibs is $2,344, while the lowest priced sells for $95 and the highest can go for as much as $62,056.