Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Hampshire Regiment 2nd Volunteer Battalion Hall Marked Silver Tobacco Box and Attestation Papers of Ernest Otto King. The tobacco box London 1901 is of oval outline with a hinged lid, this with an applied button of the Volunteer Battalions of the Hampshire Regiment and is engraved ‘S.Africa 1900-1./Pte E.O.King./From Colonel E.K.Perkins./2.V.B.H.R’. The Attestation Papers are for short service (1 year with the Colours) and show that E.O. King a postman, attested at Winchester 24th January 1900 and was discharged on the termination of his engagement 24.5.01, the front of the tobacco box with some dents otherwise good condition (2) £100-150