[BCMA] FW: Ammo box - can anyone help?

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From: jimharris at shaw.ca
To: claw567 at shaw.ca
Subject: Ammo box - can anyone help?
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 16:10:35 -0800

From: Fred Fleck [mailto:jffleck at shaw.ca] 
Sent: February 23, 2016 4:02 PM
To: Jim Harris <jimharris at shaw.ca>
Subject: Re: Ammo box - can anyone help? The GSW is probably General Steel Wares Canada and I would guess 43 is the year of manufacture.
I'm not sure if GSW is still in business.
FredOn 2/23/2016 3:14 PM, Jim Harris wrote: The folks at the museum in Creston BC are asking for help – Can anyone ID this box - Jim  To: bcma at lists.vifa.ca
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 15:26:02 -0700
From: bcma at lists.vifa.ca
Subject: [BCMA] Ammo box - can anyone help?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  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------Tammy Hardwick, ManagerCreston & District Museum & Archives219 Devon Street, Creston, BC V0B 1G3Phone 250-428-9262www.crestonmuseum.caFind us on Facebook!  
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