A Boer War Period Pine Officer’s Box & Artefacts; S. Shirley Royal Engineers c.1900 sub-Curios the Royal Pavilion

the Royal Pavilion

most notably to the arms

Carmina Burana will be playing everywhere you walk

but it is in this condition that we simply love

with the usual wear to the nose and other extremities

A Boer War Period Pine Officer’s Box & Artefacts; S. Shirley Royal Engineers c.1900 sub-Curios the Royal PavilionOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Early 20thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1900Height: 7. 5Width: 14Depth: 9. 25The painted pine traveling officers box, sign written to the top S. Shirley Royal Engineers, and richly textured in bitumen, opening to reveal a compartmentalised interior with upper slatted book shelf, bearing many officers tools and trinkets of war and having two secret sliding drawers, surviving in untouched condition from the Boer War period (1899