Height: 6cm (2.25in) 103grams 3.3ozs
Provenance: Major-General Sir Sam Steele (1848-1919)
Silver and silver gilt. Siege mortar desk ornament. Maker’s mark Edward H. Stockwell. Hallmarked London 1873. Raised on a velvet covered base.
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Major-General Sir Samuel Benfield Steele, KCMG, CB, MVO (1848-1919) of the Mounties, head of the Yukon detachment during the Klondike Gold Rush, Canadian-Pacific Railway pioneer, commanding officer of Lord Strathcona's Horse during the Boer War, and prominent figure in the organisation of the Canadian Corps during the First World War. In short - ‘the quintessential Canadian man of action in the Victorian era.’
