Live Auction 4102Christie's Interiors
A RECTANGULAR SILVER CIGAR BOX
Lot 410

A RECTANGULAR SILVER CIGAR BOX

MAKER'S MARK INDISTINCT, CHESTER, 1924

Closed24 January 2012

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GBP 875

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A RECTANGULAR SILVER CIGAR BOX
MAKER'S MARK INDISTINCT, CHESTER, 1924
The front engraved with badge of Straits Police but with vacant centre, the slightly domed hinged cover with facsimile signatures, with cedarwood-lined interior and divider
10 in. (20.5 cm.) wide; 4¼ in. (10.8 cm.) high

Specialist note

The box belonged to Mr. B. F. Oakeshott (1900-1988), and was presented to him on his transfer as Chief of Police from the Straits Settlements Police to the Federated Malay States Police in 1934. It was kept safe by the family amah during his internment by the Japanese in the Siam Road internment camp in Singapore during the war and re-presented to him on his release in 1945.