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A patriotic porcelain Boer War…
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Melbourne
Date:
21-Jul-2024
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A patriotic porcelain Boer War paperweight, James Macintyre & Co., circa 1900, featuring a sepia transfer image of the wounded British soldier after Richard Caton Woodville's painting 'A Gentleman in Kharki', and inscribed to base ,'The Absent Minded Beggar', the first verse of a poem by Rudyard Kipling, also with facsimile signature of the writer, 3.5 cm high, 9 cm diameter, Note, both image and the verse were created and often presented together to honour the common British soldier and to raise funds for the war effort. James Macintyre & Co. created a range of tea wares featuring this image. The verse was also sung to a popular tune composed by Sir Arthur Sullivan of Gilbert & Sullivan renown
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Unclassified