The Absent-Minded Beggar.
Printed handkerchief, 1901 (c); with Rudyard Kipling’s poem, ‘The Absent Minded Beggar’ and Sir Arthur Sullivan’s music; manufactured for sale by Daily Mail Publishing Company Limited, 1901 (c); embossed border in blue; scroll with title at top; cartouche with trophy of flags and portrait of FM Frederick Lord Roberts; sold during the Boer War to provide funds for hardship cases among soldiers’ families, 1901 (c).
Associated with the Boer War (1899-1902).