Object number
9902.2.11
Title
Cigarette box
Description
A cigarette box, wooden interior and silvered metal exterior, hinged lid, on which is impressed [?] in capitals 'Presented to major CH Simmons, RE/ by the Officers of 652 Artisan/ Works Coy., RE. In appreciation/ of his command from 1939=1945/ S.E.A.E.', possibly locally made, the whol decorated with decorative scrolls, elephants and eastern lions, except the base which as a checkered decoration.
Date
1939 - 1945
Dimensions
- Width: 156 mm
- 97 mm
- Height: 44 mm