A pair of vases fashioned from the shin bones of domestic cattle by civilian internees on the Isle of Man during World War 1
The hollow bones (245 mm tall, and from 45 to 55 mm wide) are mounted in small wooden bases (approximately 90 × 90 × 25 mm). Visible on one three-dimensional surface is the following, carved in high relief: '1916 | In Remembrance of the Great War | Knockaloe'. The text..... More