A Victorian silver cigar lighter, 68 (Durham) Light Infantry interest

A Victorian 68th (Durham) Light Infantry silver table cigar lighter on stand, hallmarked London, 1883, maker rubbed, further marked with Victorian diamond lozenge registration mark, modelled as a bugle with '68' below a ribbon, inscribed 'Presented to Officers Mess 5/68th Regimental District by Captn Wilson 3rd Durham Light Infantry' to the front and 'S.S. from R.D.N 1981-84' to the reverse, 11cm high overall

Footnote: Captain Wilson is likely Captain Richard Bassett Wilson, later Lt-Col, who died of enteric on 21st March 1901 at Kroonstaad during the Boer War. Wilson is the single Captain of this name listed in the 1882 officer's records for the 3rd Battalion, Durham Light Infantry. He was the third son of the late Richard Bassett Wilson, Esq., of Cliffe, and brother of Col. J. G. Wilson, C.B. R. B. Wilson was educated at Rugby and took his battalion out to South Africa in January 1900, and served with it till his death. He was mentioned in despatches, L.G., Feb. 8th, 1901, and was awarded the C.M.G.