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The box has the crest of Fraser "A bucks head erased gu." and the motto "JE SUIS PRIEST": which translates as "I am ready".

At the date of the box The Frasers were a family of renown. Capt. J Fraser, 7th Hussars,  was one of the Aides-de-Camp  at Waterloo (1815).

 

 

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