Description AN OFFICERS' COW-HIDE AND PARCHMENT POCKET ACCOUNT BOOK DATED 1816, the manuscript entries showing expenditure from February to October together with a contemporary officers' eating companion of knife and fork of campaign form, the steel blades interlocking into a sheath faced in horn, one blade marked 'TEMPLE' (2)
Condition Report The account book in very good condition, the pages protected by the heavy duty cover with entries clearly legible. The eating companion in very good order with two ferrules (probably silver) absent, nevertheless a good example of officers' campaign cutlery.