Market Find - WWI Christmas Box
Article about: Back in March I was visiting London and went to the Portobello road market. Sitting on a table I found this metal box that looked interesting to me so I purchased it for relatively little mo
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Re: Market Find - WWI Christmas Box
Hi, and welcome to the forum!
Thanks for showing your box. I would agree with the IWM, a private purchase commemorative item. I have seen one of these before.
Cheers, Ade.
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Re: Market Find - WWI Christmas Box
welhnachten,,, christmas mabye made in the USA?
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Re: Market Find - WWI Christmas Box
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Adrian Stevenson
Hi, and welcome to the forum!
Thanks for showing your box. I would agree with the IWM, a private purchase commemorative item. I have seen one of these before.
Cheers, Ade.
Hello, and thank you for the welcome!
Would these private boxes have been made during the war? Or were most of them made after the war? It certainly looks old, but it doesn't look close to 100 years old. Then again I don't know much about silver plating and how it ages.
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Did'nt these boxes have chocolate in, and sent to troops on the front as a gift from the queen/king.
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Hi, please see the WW1 forum for a thread I did about the Princess Mary's gift tin. There is some good info there.
The tin shown in this thread I doubt was made in WW1.
Cheers, Ade.
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Re: Market Find - WWI Christmas Box
hi can we please see the bottom and inside the lid
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Re: Market Find - WWI Christmas Box
There was one of these sold on fleabay recently, seems they are probably of recent manufacture. The actual Princess Mary tins and their contents have been heavily reproduced.
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