ORIGINAL**Early WW1 Christmas 1914 Princess Mary's Brass Gift Fund Box With Original Contents. Sn 22987:3 Antique & Militaria

**ORIGINAL**Early WW1 Christmas 1914 Princess Mary's Brass Gift Fund Box With Original Contents. Sn 22987:3 - 22987:3

It was Princess Mary's express wish that 'every sailor afloat and every soldier at the front' should have the present. The gifts were devised in October 1914 and intended for distribution to all who were serving overseas or at sea, in time for Christmas 1914; afterwards, with the fund in surplus and many feeling they had been ‘left out’, distribution was extended more widely – to all who were serving, whether at home or abroad, and to prisoners of war and the next of kin of 1914 casualties. The contents of the gift fund tins varied, some with tobacco and cigarettes and others with pencils, notepads & chocolate. This is an original early WW1 Christmas 1914 Princess Mary's Brass Gift Fund Box Containing an original issue opened 1914 Dated Packet Of cigarettes containing some original Mary monogramed cigarettes, a second packet of period woodbine cigarettes containing some period cigarettes, correct Princess Mary Monogramed Christmas Greeting Card in its original envelope, a black & white portrait photograph (most likely the wife or girlfriend of the recipient), a period French travel ticket, an original brass cased ‘bullet pencil’. The price for this piece of WW1 memorabilia includes UK delivery. Sn 22987:3 (Misc draw office)

£275.00