KM POW Handicraft

[Joe Slavick]

EDIT: Sorry! I wasn't thinking and posted this in the wrong forum.

I recently picked this up from Canada. It is purported to be a wartime produced handicraft from a Kriegsmarine POW in Canada.

It has a removable top tray and a small "secret" false bottom for a little storage area at the bottom of the box.

Obviously the hinges have been replaced with modern hinges.

It was pretty inexpensive, and when I saw the Viking Ship, I bought it in the hopes that it might be Hilfskreuzer related and perhaps had a name or initials inscribed in it somewhere. No such luck.

Does anyone have any experience in these POW produced handicrafts? Think it is wartime, and am I just too hopeful to keep thinking that the viking ship related to one of the Orion crew captued during the sinking or one of the Atlantis crew who arrived as a POW in Canada later in the war?

Thanks for looking and any info you may be able to provide.

Joe

[Robert Henderso]

German PoW handicraft from Canada

Greetings - I have seriously collected PoW in Canada related items since 1985, and can confirm that the type of wood and format of your box is typical of their work.
They preferred the soft wood of "Fruit shipping boxes", but also scrounged whatever became available for their handicraft.
The majority of items are unsigned or dated, with the most you can hope for is a "Censored" mark from a rubber stamp. However, most items don't even have that.
You have a great find at a most reasonable purchase price. Congratulations.

Robert