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Trench Art, OMDURMAN, Pencil. browse these categories for related items... Directory: Archives:Instruments and Implements:Writing:Pre 1900: item # 139581 Please refer to our stock # 2724 when inquiring.
Hawkes, Asian Art Watchet, Somerset United Kingdom (44) 1984 633813 Guest Book ~~~SOLD~~~ |
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A ‘TRENCH ART’ PROPELLING PENCIL COMMEMORATING THE BATTLE OF OMDURMAN, GORDON’S REVENGE.
Made from a spent .303 bullet case, the outer silver shell of the pencil cleverly looking like the live round. A twist reveals the silver pencil inside. The brass case is engraved “OMDURMAN” and “Remember Gordon” and has a silver swivel for mounting onto a watch chain. The outer silver case is dented here and there otherwise the item in fine and working. 3.3/8” excluding the swivel and closed. 4.3/8” open. The battle of Omdurman, September 1898. British and Egyptian troops under General Horatio Kitchener prevailed over Sudanese tribesmen (Dervishes) led by the Khalifa Abdullah el Taashi. The Khalifa escaped, to be pursued and later brought to battle and killed. Gordon of Khartoum 1885 Administrator of the Sudan between 1874 and 1880, General Charles Gordon was instrumental in the ending of the slave trade in the country. In 1882, Mohammed Ahmad (the Mahdi) objected to Egyptian control of Sudan and rose in revolt. His forces defeated an Egyptian army and cut off British garrisons in the central Sudan. Gordon was sent back to Sudan in 1884 to rescue the isolated garrisons but became cut off in Khartoum. After a ten-month siege, the town fell and he was killed. Public opinion saw Gordon as a hero of Empire and blamed the British government under Gladstone for failing to send a relief column. Sudan remained under local control until Kitchener was successful at the Battle of Omdurman in 1898. |
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