The Scottish Mountain Heritage Collection
1093.2013.1(a-c)
Grenade tin/cooking utensils
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Hermione Cooper
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Former grenade tin and lid used for cooking. Pot holder.
aluminium
pot with lid on-17.5(diameter) x 19(h) cms
3
"EXPLOSIVE 5 FUZ REN PERC L25A6 231 CY8-79"
silver
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.
Doanted by Mick Tighe
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Spectrum : UK Museum documentation standard, V.3.1 2007
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