C7_006538 Chocolate Tin

Item Reference: 006538
Category: First World War
Format: Artefact
Description: Decorative tin, originally containing a bar of chocolate, labelled, ‘Gift of the Colonies of Trinidad, Granada, St. Lucia to His Majesty’s Naval and Military Forces’
Date: 1917
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Empty metal tin, black with gold decoration
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Empty metal tin, black with gold decoration
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Empty metal tin, black with gold decoration
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Inside of empty metal tin, black with gold decoration
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Empty metal tin, black with gold decoration
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Empty metal tin, black with gold decoration
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Empty metal tin, black with gold decoration
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Empty metal tin, black with gold decoration
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C12.1_001440 Anti Gas Ointment

Item Reference: 001440
Category: Second World War
Format: Artefact
Description: Empty, oblong, tin, badly rusted, with worn and patchy instructions printed on lid. Would have previously contained eight lead tubes of anti-gas ointment designed to be applied to the skin as an antidote to mustard gas and lewisite
Date: c. 1941
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Anti-gas Ointment
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Anti-gas Ointment
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C12.1_001431 Anti Dimming Compound

Item Reference: 001431
Category: Second World War
Format: Artefact
Description: Small, green, tubular tin, badly rusted, with worn and patchy instructions printed on the outside. Would have contained anti-dimming compound and cleaning cloth for gas mask eye pieces
Date: 1940s
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Anti-dimming compound
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Anti-dimming compound
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Anti-dimming compound
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Anti-dimming compound
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Anti-dimming compound
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