A 9 carat gold rectangular cigarette case by Cartier, London 1943, the hinged covers with linear decoration and calibre cut sapphire thumb piece, engraved inside the cover To F. Armstrong From H.H. The Maharaja of Baroda , signed Cartier London maker's mark J C, numbered 9814 and 960, 12.7cm x 8.2cm, 182.8g gross, in a fitted gilt tooled pink leather bound Cartier case Fred Armstrong was a Newmarket race horse trainer who trained a number of racehorses belonging to to the Maharajah of Baroda in the 1940s. Pratapsinha Gaekwad (1908-1968) succeeded his grandfather, Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III, as the Maharaja of Baroda in 1939. In 1911 Sayajirao III commissioned Jacques Cartier to reset his entire jewellery collection in modern platinum settings. Although nothing came of this initial project, Jacques Cartier's visit to India in 1911 laid the foundations of extremely fruitful and enduring relationships between Cartier and Indian Royal families, culminating in the re- setting of Indian Royal jewellery collections into modern European styles during the 1920s.