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box, trinket

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  • Other Name

    trinket box, WW1 (descriptive name)

    12/3565 Private Donald Melville Wood Brown, Auckland Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Company, NZEF (associated name)

  • Description

    trinket box associated with 12/3565 Private Donald Melville Wood Brown, Auckland Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Company, NZEF, WW1

    Lacquered rectangular box with hinged lid, no longer attached. The box has a key lock but the key did not come with the box. The box lid depicts pink and blue [pigeons/doves] on rocky ground with small conifer-type plants growing around. Donald gathered the box in France in the ruins of an uninhabited village and mentions it in a letter to his motherindicating he would send it to her. He said it [held a stamp collection.]

  • Associated Place

    France

  • Accession Number
    2017.98.6
  • Accession Date
    13 Nov 2017
  • Department

    History

    War History

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