Lot 5550

Description

Boer War, fold-out table spoon in Britannia silver with celluloid handle and at handle end on one side is inset a Jubilee silver bust of Queen Victoria, on the metal handle near the spoon is impressed, 'SPION KOP' and on the underside the maker's mark, 'WG S*B', William Hallimore & Sons, Sheffield, Britannia (type of silver). Fine and scarce.

The Battle of Spion Kop was fought during the Boer War on the hilltop of Spioenkop about 38km west-south-west of Ladysmith in Natal from 23-24 January 1900 by forces of the South African Republic and Orange Free State against British forces with the Boers emerging victorious.