Height: 14.5cm (5.7in)
Silver and glass. Cylindrical body with silver lift off lid engraved with regimental cypher and badge, and applied with a central finial in the form of the royal crest being the badge of 2nd Life Guards (the imperial crown proper, thereon a lion statant gardant or imperially crowned prope). The lid further and additionally inscribed 'Purchased at the disposal of the Officers Mess plate 1929’. Gilt underside. Maker’s mark of the Crown Jeweller R & S Garrard & Co (James Garrard). Hallmarked London 1882.