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Grenade tin/cooking utensils

Accession Number

1093.2013.1(a-c)

Object Name

Grenade tin/cooking utensils

Created

06/11/2013

Creator

Hermione Cooper

Accession Date

06/11/2013

Brief Description

Former grenade tin and lid used for cooking. Pot holder.

Materials

aluminium

Dimensions

pot with lid on-17.5(diameter) x 19(h) cms

Number Of Objects

3

Inscription Description

"EXPLOSIVE 5 FUZ REN PERC L25A6 231 CY8-79"

Colour

silver

Provenance

Founder of the Scottish Mountain Heritage Collection, Mick Tighe, ran a mountain guiding company called Nevis Guides in the 1980's/90's and early 2000's. He was an ex-Royal Marine and for many years another ex-marine, Bill Newton, worked with Mick as a fellow Mountain Guide. Mick and Bill borrowed a few things from the Marines when they left and there's an excellent example here in the collection - a tin for storing grenade fuses.
The marines had worked out early on that these fuse tins made excellent cooking pots, and Nevis Guides had several of them - this one survived.
Mick remembers two young female, peace campaigners attending one of his courses back in the 1980's - they were horrified to learn that they'd cooked their dinner in a grenade tin! The pot handle was pillaged elsewhere.

Acquisition Method

Doanted by Mick Tighe

Acquisition Date

06/11/2013

Condition Check Date

06/11/2013

Rules

Spectrum : UK Museum documentation standard, V.3.1 2007

Modified

06/11/2013

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