Boer War interest

Boer War interest, a late-Victorian silver and enamel vesta case, by Saunders and Shepherd, Birmingham 1899, rectangular form, the front enamelled with the scene of a wounded soldier carrying his gun, underneath written 'a Gentleman in Kharki', also engraved 'copyright', the reverse with a monogram, length 4.8cm, approx. weight 1.8oz. 'A Gentleman in Kharki' comes for a line in the Rudyad Kipling poem, 'The Absent Minded Beggar'.