Size 30cm x 20cm x 9cm
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Well Carved Historic Antique Hardwood Ceylonese Presentation Cigar/Trinket Box. Presented in 1927 as the silver plated plaque says to Major. H. Scoble Nicholson O.B.E by the Ceylon Labour Commission. He was responsible for bringing as many as 170.000 Tamils over from India to work in the tea plantations of the low country estates, these had been threatened with closure due to a lack of workers. More On Google.
