BOER WAR INTEREST: a silver and enamel cigarette case and vesta Saunders & Shepherd, Birmingham ...
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BOER WAR INTEREST: a silver and enamel cigarette case and vesta
Saunders & Shepherd, Birmingham 1899
The fronts enamelled with a British soldier and 'A Gentleman in Kharki', incuse stamped below COPYRIGHT, the cigarette case with gilded interior, reverse of case with engraved initials and date, , height 8.5cm and 5cm. (2)
Footnotes:
'A Gentleman in Khaki' is a line from the Kipling poem The Absent-Minded Beggar. It was written in 1899 to raise money for the families of soldiers fighting in the Second Boer War.
Saunders & Shepherd, Birmingham 1899
The fronts enamelled with a British soldier and 'A Gentleman in Kharki', incuse stamped below COPYRIGHT, the cigarette case with gilded interior, reverse of case with engraved initials and date, , height 8.5cm and 5cm. (2)
Footnotes:
'A Gentleman in Khaki' is a line from the Kipling poem The Absent-Minded Beggar. It was written in 1899 to raise money for the families of soldiers fighting in the Second Boer War.
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BOER WAR INTEREST: a silver and enamel cigarette case and vesta Saunders & Shepherd, Birmingham ...
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