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Gwastraff a Rhyfel (Waste and War)

Two part cleft Ash-wood from Pembrokeshire with acrylic paint.

Monogrammed letter carving on an ash wood offcut from the sawmill at Tyntesfield, Somerset, with acrylic paint and a rusty can, flattened in the road. Brass pins to hold the tin into place with a slate base.

The words are from an englyn (four-line poem in strict metre) by the Welsh poet Emrys (William Ambrose, 1813-73) and are carved on some Welsh war memorials.
Translation: 'Idleness is the sword's praise and rust is its honour'

$956.24

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Gwastraff a Rhyfel (Waste and War)

$2,732.11

$956.24

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Two part cleft Ash-wood from Pembrokeshire with acrylic paint.

Monogrammed letter carving on an ash wood offcut from the sawmill at Tyntesfield, Somerset, with acrylic paint and a rusty can, flattened in the road. Brass pins to hold the tin into place with a slate base.

The words are from an englyn (four-line poem in strict metre) by the Welsh poet Emrys (William Ambrose, 1813-73) and are carved on some Welsh war memorials.
Translation: 'Idleness is the sword's praise and rust is its honour'

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