NAM.1982-08-21-1

Writing box, 1860 (c); wood covered in patterned brown leather and inscribed with the initials of the owner, Maj A I Fraser DSO, 9th Hodson’s Horse; brass hinged handle is inset in the top; keyhole on the front and lock made by S Mordon and Co, London; internally the lid opens and reveals an elastic letter rack, and is impressed with the maker’s name, Allen, London; the inside of the body is lined with dark blue or black leather; on one side is a green iron tinder box, Berry’s Patent, containing several waxed matches; the main compartment contains: a piece of chamois leather contained in a leather case inscribed, ‘Extracts from the Pen’, a steel propelling pencil shaped as a cannon barrel, a bullet and an ivory handled silver pointed propelling pencil.

World War One (1914-1918)