A Boer War Period Pine Officer’s Box & Artefacts; S. Shirley Royal Engineers c.1900 Doe & Hope X Hannah Matthews It would now work beautifully

It would now work beautifully well as a book-end

would benefit from inspection and installation by a qualified electrician

A great Victorian craze

in the county of Devon

A Boer War Period Pine Officer’s Box & Artefacts; S. Shirley Royal Engineers c.1900 Doe & Hope X Hannah Matthews It would now work beautifullyOrigin: 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