An unusual George V sterling silver travelling sugar cube box, Birmingham 1917 by S Blanckensee and Son Ltd

Of square form with a hinged lid with a push button release, chain attachment. The lid engraved with a stanza “Ah, fill the Cup:- what boots it to repeat How Time is slipping underneath our Feet: Unborn To-morrow and dead Yesterday, Why fret about them if To-day be sweet!”. Gilt interior with wire grill for fifteen sugar cubes. Fully and part-marked.

Length – 8.2 cm / 3.5 inches

Weight – 119 grams / 3.83 ozt

XXXVII of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald in 1859.