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[edit]Box, gift
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Adshead & Ramsay |
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| Title |
Box, gift |
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| Object type | Christmas/wars Classification: NM3.12771 |
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| Description |
English: Princess Mary Gift box, 1914, WW1 Presented to 12-346 Private William George Evesham, Auckland Infantry Battalion gift box and card brass tin with a double-skinned hinged lid; surface of lid depicts head of Princess Mary in the centre surrounded by a laurel wreath and flanked either side by monogram "M"; at top a decorative cartouche contains the words 'IMPERIUM BRITANNICUM' with a sword and scabbard on either side; at the lower edge a decorative cartouche contains the words 'CHRISTMAS 1914' flanked by the bows of battleships forging through a heavy sea; in the corners are small roundels with the names of allies- 'BELGIUM - JAPAN - MONTENEGRO - SERVIA'; and on either side roundels with 'FRANCE' and 'RUSSIA' superimposed on three furled flags or standards |
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| Date | World War 1, 1914-18-wars; 1914; 1914-1915 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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height: 28mm |
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| Accession number |
1985.5 |
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| Credit line | Collection of Auckland Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira, 1985.5, W2783 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes | Princess Mary Gift Box, WW1 "Princess Mary's Christmas Gift to Troops, 1914-15" Belonged to 12-346 Private William George Evesham, (Waikato Rifles) Auckland Infantry Battalion, WW1. Evesham left New Zealand with the Main Body 1NZEF on 16 October 1914. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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