John & Patricia McKenzie Private Collection of Vesta Cases – Part I

A LATE 19TH CENTURY FRENCH BROWN-STAINED IVORY VESTA CASE engraved with two men playing cards (which, when viewed from a distance, resembles a skull), flip cover c.1900 together with a hardwood vesta inscribed "Boer Camp Ceylon 1901", and a Japanese horn vesta with inset ivory panels, c.1900; the latter 2.3" (6 cms) long (3)