The painted bone that lets us brush up on our history

Thursday 23rd September 2010, 2:56PM BST.

The bone show Blanches Banques First World War prisoner of war camp, La Rocco Tower and Corbière

AN unusual piece of artwork depicting the Island’s First World War Blanches Banques prisoner of war camp will be auctioned next week.

The view is painted onto an animal bone and shows the camp, which was situated on the sand dunes behind St Ouen’s Beach in St Brelade, with views of Corbière Lighthouse and La Rocco Tower.

It is not known how much the piece will fetch at Simon Drieu’s saleroom at Glencoe in St Lawrence, but nine photographs of the camp made £1,200 at auction earlier this month.

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