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From the next OJW auction:


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Description: "For Auld Lang Syne" Frae Scots tae Scots South Africa Boer War tin, with original chocolates inside, 10,3cm x 8,5cm x 1,5cm

That had better be Tobacco and not Chocolate...… But I am sure it is and the lister made an error..... Mike

Very nice, I remember once buying a box of fudge that looked not dissimilar to that chocolate.

djb wrote: From the next OJW auction:

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Description: "For Auld Lang Syne" Frae Scots tae Scots South Africa Boer War tin, with original chocolates inside, 10,3cm x 8,5cm x 1,5cm

120 years old , and you can still smell the tobacco
i bought the tin in Johannesburg in 1995, it was given to the Scottish soldiers
Garry.










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Hello all!
The other day while clearing out a shed up here in Argyll, Scotland I found one of these tins and wondered what they were about, glad to see there's a forum where I can read about this stuff.

Sadly there was no original card or tabacco inside the tin, but instead there is an old letter dated 22/5/1899 (so before the war) written in Afrikaans, I suspect it could also partially be in dutch, don't know for certain yet. I haven't managed to work out what the letter says, I have a friend who speaks afrikaans whose going to help translate it once I have all the words written down, it's terribly difficult to read the handwriting. Though I have figured out the heading is 'Groenvallei', presumably that's where the letter was written. Groenvallei on google takes you to a suburb of Capetown, though it seems to mean 'Green valley' so maybe there's more than one green valley in South Africa I don't know. Thought you guys might find it interesting anyway, if anyone wants I can post the translated letter once I figure it out.

I have struggled to upload any of the pictures I have taken, they seem to be too large a size even when cropped so I've made a Google Docs folder link to where you can view the Tin and the Letter if anyone is interested at all
Link: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1p_i4h52j...-_WKv9wL?usp=sharing

It's a love letter (1,000 kisses etc).