Paperweight incorporating finds from the battlefields of Wandiwash (1760) and Perambakkam (1780)

The central coin was found on the battlefield of Wandiwash (1760). It was struck in Ireland in 1689, to pay the troops of King James II during his war against William III. Following James's defeat, many Irish soldiers went to France where they were formed into Irish regiments in French service (the so-called 'Wild Geese'). The defeated French forces at Wandiwash included an Irish regiment. Perhaps the coin was a family heirloom, carried by an Irish soldier as a good luck charm. On that day in 1760, his luck ran out.

The two small musket or shrapnel balls were recovered from the battlefield of Perrambakkam (1780), one of the East India Company's worst military defeats.