‘Fulton Patent Nº 12801' Handkerchief c1888
A large, printed cotton handkerchief designed by Lieutenant-Colonel Carré Fulton. The large handkerchief was designed to be an aide-mémoire, imparting military instruction to infantry. As a convenient guide for soldiers to memorize military activities and training. It features a description of the Lee-Metford Rifles Mark I & II surrounded by vignettes of marksmanship, concealment, instructions for the use of the bayonet and related subject matter, with medal decorated corners and red border, 52 x 63cm , framed and glazed.
Reviewed in the The Army and Navy Gazette in 1895, ‘The notion is good and has been well carried out, both from an artistic and educational point of view,’. In a 1893 article entitled “The Marvellous Military Pocket Handkerchief” The South Wales Daily Post reported that, given the War Office (headquarted on Pall Mall, London) had just sanctioned Fulton’s mouchoir, ‘permission to carry these useful articles will now probably be given’, noting that ‘many items are so nicely illustrated that it would be a thousand pities to use it in the manner naturally prompted by a cutting nor’easter’
Lieutenant-Colonel Fulton served in the Durham Light Infantry in India untill 1891, before retiring to manage the the London branch of Jerome Saccone Ltd, a wine and spirit merchant based in Gibraltar.
A large, printed cotton handkerchief designed by Lieutenant-Colonel Carré Fulton. The large handkerchief was designed to be an aide-mémoire, imparting military instruction to infantry. As a convenient guide for soldiers to memorize military activities and training. It features a description of the Lee-Metford Rifles Mark I & II surrounded by vignettes of marksmanship, concealment, instructions for the use of the bayonet and related subject matter, with medal decorated corners and red border, 52 x 63cm , framed and glazed.
Reviewed in the The Army and Navy Gazette in 1895, ‘The notion is good and has been well carried out, both from an artistic and educational point of view,’. In a 1893 article entitled “The Marvellous Military Pocket Handkerchief” The South Wales Daily Post reported that, given the War Office (headquarted on Pall Mall, London) had just sanctioned Fulton’s mouchoir, ‘permission to carry these useful articles will now probably be given’, noting that ‘many items are so nicely illustrated that it would be a thousand pities to use it in the manner naturally prompted by a cutting nor’easter’
Lieutenant-Colonel Fulton served in the Durham Light Infantry in India untill 1891, before retiring to manage the the London branch of Jerome Saccone Ltd, a wine and spirit merchant based in Gibraltar.
A large, printed cotton handkerchief designed by Lieutenant-Colonel Carré Fulton. The large handkerchief was designed to be an aide-mémoire, imparting military instruction to infantry. As a convenient guide for soldiers to memorize military activities and training. It features a description of the Lee-Metford Rifles Mark I & II surrounded by vignettes of marksmanship, concealment, instructions for the use of the bayonet and related subject matter, with medal decorated corners and red border, 52 x 63cm , framed and glazed.
Reviewed in the The Army and Navy Gazette in 1895, ‘The notion is good and has been well carried out, both from an artistic and educational point of view,’. In a 1893 article entitled “The Marvellous Military Pocket Handkerchief” The South Wales Daily Post reported that, given the War Office (headquarted on Pall Mall, London) had just sanctioned Fulton’s mouchoir, ‘permission to carry these useful articles will now probably be given’, noting that ‘many items are so nicely illustrated that it would be a thousand pities to use it in the manner naturally prompted by a cutting nor’easter’
Lieutenant-Colonel Fulton served in the Durham Light Infantry in India untill 1891, before retiring to manage the the London branch of Jerome Saccone Ltd, a wine and spirit merchant based in Gibraltar.