Description
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, repair to enamel, also engraved 'copyright', the reverse initialled, length 5cm, approx. weight 1.2oz.
This type of vesta case normally has 'A Gentleman in Kharki' written under the soldier. This comes for a line in the Rudyad Kipling poem, 'The Absent Minded Beggar'.
