Military interest/Royal presentation:- a Victorian silver-mounted glass claret jug by William Edwards, London, 1875 The tapering body finely etched with two groups of three children, one conducting the other two who play a flute and violin respectively, with scrolling foliage around them, the bead-edged scroll handle terminating at the base in a leaf, the chased silver mount with rocaille-decorated spout and inscribed on top 'Lt. Col. P.C Glyn, Rifle Brigade, from H.R.H. The Duke of Connaught, Oct. 1875’, star-cut base, 26.5cm high. Lt. Colonel John Plumtre Carr Glyn KCB (1837-1912), later Lieutenant General, joined the Rifle Brigade in 1854, served in the Crimean War and the Ashanti Campaign, also in the Zulu War, Major-General 1889, Lt.-General in 1898, Colonel-commandant of the Rifle Brigade in January 1903. Arthur William Patrick Albert, Prince Arthur of Connaught and Strathearn (1850-1942), seventh child of Queen Victoria, transferred from the Royal Artillery to the Rifle Brigade in August 1869 and held honorary rank of Colonel from 1871-1876, he later became a General.