[BCMA] Ammo box - can anyone help?

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Hello, Museum-land people!

 

Someone just brought this box into my office, asking if I knew anything more
about it. Apparently, it is an ammunition box, but I have never seen
anything like it so can't help her much. Anyone recognise this? Dimensions
are 45cm long x 25 cm deep x 20 cm high; wooden construction with two metal
compartments inside. The two metal interior compartments lift out
separately, and have a few markings on them - a stamp that looks like a
crown with an arrow pointing up at it, and an embossed "GSW 43" on each end.
There is a stencilled marking on the lid, just visible in this photo: C.D.
107 probably, though the last digit is hard to read. There's also a metal
"9" on the end of the box, that looks like the kind of number you might use
to put your street number on your house - that might be a later addition
(the box apparently was used as a tool box for quite some time).

 

Tammy

 

Ammo box.jpg

 

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Tammy Hardwick, Manager

Creston & District Museum & Archives

219 Devon Street, Creston, BC V0B 1G3

Phone 250-428-9262

www.crestonmuseum.ca

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