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Auction: 3016 - Orders, Medals, Decorations & Militaria
Lot: 604

A First World War P.O.W. Gold Presentation 'Cigarette Box'
Gold box, by Philip Morris & Co. Ltd. 22 New Bond St. W., 18 ct., 106.35g. (Hallmarks for London 1918), the inside lid engraved 'After being badgered & pestered for several months, Captain Rupert Keppel, Coldstream Guards, reluctantly consented to present this extremely expensive cigarette case to Captain J Montgomery, in memory of their singularly sordid companionship as Prisoners of War in Germany', the box originally fitted with a mirror, this now detached but present

Captain the Hon. Rupert Keppel, 3rd. Coldstream Guards, was taken Prisoner of War 26.8.1914, and was interned in Holland. He was repatriated 18.11.1918.

Captain J Montgomery, 7th. Princess Royal's Dragoon Guards, was taken Prisoner of War 24.8.1914, and was interned in Holland. He was repatriated 22.11.1918.

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