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• Author/Creator:Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936.
  
• Title:[Patriotic dishware imprinted with Kipling's poem, The absent-minded beggar].
  
• Published/Created:Burslem, England : Macintyre, [1900-1902?]
  
• Physical Description:Dishware (7 pieces) : [porcelain?], col. ; 2-15 cm. x 6-18 cm.
  

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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
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  • Call Number: 2014 Folio 608
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

   
• Local Notes:BEIN 2014 Folio 608: In ms. in gold paint on bottom of each piece: B3441.
  
• Notes:Seven pieces of dishware, each bearing the holographic first verse of Rudyard Kipling's poem, The absent-minded beggar, as well as an illustration, A gentleman in kharki, by Richard Caton Woodville.
  Title devised by cataloger.
  These pieces of patriotic dishware were made and sold to aid the charity often known as The Absent-Minded Beggar Fund, which was part of a campaign by the London newspaper, The Daily mail, to raise money for British soldiers fighting in the South African War of 1899-1902.
  The poem, written in 1899, has as its refrain, "Pass your hat for your credit's sake, and pay-- pay-- pay!" It was set to music by Sir Arthur Sullivan, also in 1899, and copies of both the poem and the sheet music were sold in great numbers in aid of the fund.
  Often accompanying the published poem was the illustration, dated 1899, with the caption title, A gentleman in kharki, which depicted a soldier, bayonet at the ready despite the bandage around his wounded head.
  The pieces of dishware, all produced by James Macintyre & Co. of Burslem, England, include a cup and saucer, a small plate, and three pin dishes in the form of suits in a deck of cards (one shaped like a heart, one like a spade, one like a diamond).
  Each piece of dishware is white with the illustration and the holograph verse printed in sepia; Kipling's autograph, also in sepia, appears at the end of the verse. Each piece is rimmed in gold. In the case of the pin dishes, where there is not enough space to print the entire verse, the refrain only is printed, and that on the bottom of the dish.
  
• Format:Visual Material
• Subjects:Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900.
  Daily mail (London, England)
  South African War, 1899-1902.
  
• Also listed under:Woodville, Richard Caton, 1856-1927. Gentleman in khaki.
  James Macintyre & Co.