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Inkwell (front)

A horse’s hoof with finished silver forms at both ends. The silver is shaped like the lowest part of the horse’s leg at the top of the hoof and has a lid opening into an ink well.

Collection of Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light, Infantry Regimental Museum and Archives, Calgary, Alberta, A-78.6.3 (Q)

silver, hoof, metal, glass, 7.5 x 13.7 x 10.2 cm, 1918, Inscription on lid: MAXIXE CHARGER OF LIEUT. COL. R.T. PELLY D.S.O. COMMANDING PRINCESS PATRICIA’S CANADIAN LIGHT INFANTRY, DURING THE GREAT WAR 1914–1918.

Raymond Theodore Pelly served in the Boer War in South Africa and went on to become a lieutenant colonel with the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI) during the First World War. After the War, he was presented with this inkwell made by a famous London taxidermist, Rowland Ward Limited, Piccadilly, from the hoof of his horse, Maxixe.