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

[Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv.]

Hi, Sandra,

 

Just getting back into the office after two weeks away – thanks for your
interest in helping with this, and here’s the image.

 

Tammy

 

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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

Find us on Facebook! <https://www.facebook.com/CrestonMuseum> 

 

 

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Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 5:47 AM
To: bcma at lists.vifa.ca
Subject: [BCMA] FW: Ammo box - can anyone help?

 

Tammy;

 

CFB Chilliwack Historical Society Museum sent my your email, but the image
had been corrupted.  If you could sent the image directly, I would be happy
to take a look and talk to our ammunition people to see what we can find
out.

 

 

Sandra F. Johnson Penney

 

Curator, Canadian Military Engineers Museum

Supervisor, Training Resource Centre, Canadian Forces School of Military
Engineering

Department of National Defence / Government of Canada

Telephone 506-422-2000 local 1897 / CSN 432-1897 / Fax 506-422-1220

 

Conservatrice, Musée du génie militaire canadien

Surveillante, Centre de resource en formation, École du génie militaire des
forces canadiennes

Ministère de la Défense nationale / Gouvernement du Canada

Téléphone 506-422-2000 poste 1897 / CSN 432-1897 / Télécopieur 506-422-1220

 

From: Jim Harris [mailto:jimharris at shaw.ca] 
Sent: February-23-16 7:15 PM
To: Undisclosed Recipient
Cc: Johnson Penney SF at CFSME@Gagetown
Subject: Ammo box - can anyone help?

 

 The folks at the museum in Creston BC are asking for help – Can anyone ID
this box - Jim 

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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

 

 

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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

Find us on Facebook!

 

 


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