Summit Box - Italian Alpine Club

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Summit Box – Italian Alpine Club
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Summit Box – Italian Alpine Club
Description
Book shaped metal summit box.
Inscription description
“C.I.A. SEZ. SEREGNO”
Acquisition Method:
Donated by Mick Tighe
Number of Objects:
1
Related Items:
Provenance:
A little bit of a curio this, and one of Italian rather than Scottish Mountain Heritage. It’s the custom on many Alpine peaks to have a little book on the summit so folk can record their visits. The books, and their containers, are often placed by the local Alpine Club and completed books are kept in the relevant club archive. So we have here in the collection a much damaged summit book container which belonged to the CIA Sez Seregno, which is the Seregno section of the Italian Alpine Club; Seregno being a town in northern Italy. Curiously, and rather confusingly, Mick Tighe found the container in the Engadine area of Switzerland, albeit not far from the Italian border. It was lying in a boulder field and as it was damaged he thought it better as a ‘souvenir’ than a ‘return to owner’. So we now have a little piece of Italian Heritage in our Scottish Collection, though from which summit we are not sure.
Object Production
Production Place:
Italy
Materials:
Iron
Maker:
Colour:
Grey
Dimensions:
21(L) x 14(W) x 4(D) cms
Object Condition:
Condition Date Check:
15/04/2016
Administration
Accession Number:
1307.2016.1
Creator:
Hermione Cooper
Accession Date:
15/04/2016
ID:
1
Category:
Location
Location:
Bohuntin
Current Location
Rules:
Spectrum : UK Museum documentation standard, V.3.1 2007