Slightly Odd – A horses hoof inkwell from the King’s Dragoon Guards

Not what I’d personally want on my desk but here’s a horses hoof inkwell. The top is engraved with the sobriquet ‘Ugly Buck’ of the King’s Dragoon Guards 1864. In 1860 this Regiment played a very active part in the Second Opium War receiving the Battle Honour ‘China’ ‘Taku Forts’ (Tianjin) and ‘Peking’ for their actions…Ugly Buck, the way, was (I think) a horse….