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A Victorian electroplated mounted ebonised wooden regimental table cigar lighter modelled as an early Armstrong breech loading field gun and limber,
circa 1885,
on a wooden plinth, with a presentation plaque inscribed, 'Presented to Capt Henry Holmes, by the members of No. 9 Battery of the 1st Essex Artillery, Volunteers and Friends at Hornchurch, as a token of esteem and their appreciation of this support to the volunteers cause 29 January 1885', length 55cm.