A First War Lord Kitchener Commemorative Matchbox Cover
Tin with a printed and celluloid wrapper, printed in red, blue, yellow and black inks on a white base, open on three sides, magnetic, front panel illustrating a colourized black and white image of Lord Kitchener, inscribed "LORD KITCHENER WHO RAISED" above and "A Voluntary Army of 5 million men." below, inside a black ruled frame, back panel inscribed "LORD KITCHENER'S CAREER" with nine notations below documenting his birth, ranks, battles and death inside a gold-coloured ruled frame, spine inscribed "THE LATE LORD KITCHENER. / Born June 24th, 1850. / Lost with H.M.S. Hampshire. / June 5th, 1916." inside a gold-coloured ruled frame, with "British Made." at either end, 41.7 mm x 61.5 mm, x 21 mm, extremely fine.

