Posted on 06/03/2018 12:07:53 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Troops serving in France during the first Christmas of the war were given the Colonies Gift Tins, made in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
Just one of the 10 bars had been eaten and the tin is being sold at an antiques auction on Tuesday.
In October 1916, he was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal, by then he was home because of shrapnel head wounds.
He recovered and in 1919 joined Leicestershire Police, where he rose to the rank of superintendent. He died in January 1967.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Oh well.
$3,000 or so. I hope the buyer values Corp. Bullimore's things more highly than the seller does.
Is the chocolate still edible?
The fats in the chocolate would have turned rancid long ago.
Sometimes there is no family left.
Some simply do not want to keep everything forever.
My wife and siblings went over everything her mother left after a long and good life.
After years my wife decided to discard the old school yearbooks from high school and college.
I was very happy that her old college library purchased them on ebay.
That someone would pay for them, even better; and not in a financial sense.
Dark chocolate is good for four months after the expiration date. Milk chocolate for two months. Truffles for two weeks. I recently checked on that on the Internet because of some Valentine Day boxes of chocolate.
Yes, so sad that his medals and citations are to be sold. Perhaps there are no direct descendants and the seller is a distant relative.
For RVN we had Hershey’s tropical chocolate.
Even when fresh, had no flavor.
Rancid may have been a plus?
Chocolate bars in c-rats are good for 45 years.
:)
Even when fresh, had no flavor.
Rancid may have been a plus?
I had to look that one up (being a chocolate aficionado).
http://amhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/collection/object.asp?ID=42
It was designed to not taste good, so soldiers would not eat it except in case of an emergency.
My sister and family lived in Belgium for years, once sent a 10-kilogram chocolate bar, with an exterior note, ‘save for Christmas’.
Apparently lost in transit, we received it in March, and put it unopened with the Christmas stuff.
Was just fine the following Christmas.
Not necessarily so. I bought a batch of WWII Lifeboat Survival Rations, and used them for backpacking food, well into the 1960s.
The hard biscuits, malted milk tablets, (separately canned) fruit pemmican, and vitamin-enriched chocolate stayed good. The chocolate, which had gone through several cycles of melting during hot Texas summers, got a bit granular, but was still tasty. Some folks bought the rations and made fudge by melting the granulated chocolate...
Wish I had another dozen or so tins now...
That would make an interesting collectable.
Pls define ‘good’?
The ones that came in the can wrapped in foil with crackers(?). Maybe, they were a prize find.
The tropical chocolate bars, not so much.
Not certain they were from the C’s?
May have come with the LRP rats?
If it was a fruitcake, it would still be fine.
Meaning, inedible.
True, but World War I memorabilia seems in a different class than school yearbooks. Much more individual.
There is a supermarket near me which sells a lot of close dated and even out dated items.
Some I can’t tell the difference, I even like their steaks a little better. On the expiration date they hard freeze them.
The one thing I have learned to avoid is candy. Some are better than others but many begin to taste rancid after only a month or two out of date. I basically will not take a chance on candy at all.
That's what I use my stash of broccoli for today. Once I was hit by a bulldozer and knocked into a vat of acid and thought for a moment about eating the emergency broccoli but then thought "no, not serious enough for that stuff".
A nutritionist once said about can goods if you open it and it looks good and smells good it is safe eat.
Even after decades.
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