Boer War interest

Boer War interest, a late-Victorian silver and enamel vesta case,

by Saunders and Shepherd, Birmingham 1899,

rectangular form, hinged cover with a ring attachment, the front enamelled with the scene of a wounded soldier carrying his gun, and written 'A Gentleman in Kharki', the reverse inscribed 'HMS 14 Nov 1899', length 5cm, approx. weight 1.1oz.

'A Gentleman in Khaki' comes for a line in the Rudyard Kipling poem, 'The Absent Minded Beggar'.