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... More

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`.