A Victorian silver-gilt regimental ewer and pair of goblets

A Victorian silver-gilt regimental ewer and pair of goblets,

by Stephen Smith, London 1868,

slender vase form, engraved fern decoration and engraved with the badge of the 9th Lancers, inscribed 'Surgeon Major Robert Lewer from the Officers of the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers, Kabul; 1880', on a circular foot, the goblets with similar fern decoration and engraved with the badge of the 9th Lancers, in a fitted case, height of ewer 35cm, approx. weight 37oz. (3)

Surgeon Major Robert Lewer was born in Wimborne Dorset in 3 October 1835. In the Afghan war he was in medical charge of the 9th Lancers on the Khyber line in the first campaign, and then he went on to be acting brigade surgeon for the cavalry brigade on the Kabul-Kandahar march.