The Absent Minded Beggar
handkerchief, handkerchief
Accession Number
NAM.1963-09-594-1
Description
The Absent Minded Beggar. Printed cotton handkerchief, 1901 (c); with scroll containing Rudyard Kipling’s poem, ‘The Absent Minded Beggar’ with Sir Arthur Sullivan’s music; white with embossed border in blue; portraits of Queen Victoria and FM Frederick Lord Roberts; sold during the Boer War to provide funds for hardship cases among soldiers’ families, 1901 (c).
Campaigns
Boer War (1899-1902)
Units