A working model of a guillotine made by a Napoleonic prisoner, awaiting his death, is expected to fetch up to £8,000 at auction when it goes on sale early next month. The 200-year-old replica was ...

A working 20 inch-tall model of a guillotine, fashioned from scrap animal bone about 200 years ago, is about to go up for auction. The replica, thought to be the handicraft of a Napoleonic prisoner on ...

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During the Napoleonic Wars from 1803 to 1814 many French prisoners were living in a number of towns in Montgomeryshire.This extraordinarily detailed model of a guillotine was carved from sheep bones ...