Posted on 12/31/2020 11:09:53 AM PST by Red Badger
Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Staff members at the National Library of Australia said they were stunned when they found a 120-year-old box of chocolate hidden in papers of the late poet and journalist A.B. "Banjo" Paterson.
They were was going through the recently acquired papers of the Australian poet when they stumbled on the souvenir tin filled with chocolate. The chocolate still was in its straw packaging and silver foil wrapping.
Staffers were unpacking the contents of a box with Paterson's papers so they could be digitized. The tins were commissioned by Britain's Queen Victoria and sent to soldiers in South Africa during the Boer War around 1900 as a gift to the troops.
It is believed Paterson most likely bought the chocolate from one of the soldiers while working as a war correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
"There was quite an interesting smell when they were unwrapped," National Library of Australia conservator Jennifer Todd said Tuesday. "[It was] an old tin of chocolates, belonging to Banjo, with the chocolates still wrapped in the box."
Paterson never referenced the chocolate bar in his writing, but the commemorative chocolate tins became a trading item at the front.
Paterson served as a war correspondent in South Africa for nearly a year starting in October 1899 before returning to Australia. His papers were passed down by his family after his death in 1941 before the library donation in 2019.
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Good old Banjo.
His best friend was Hambone.
I read that dark chocolate can last a VERY long time but milk chocolate only a few years...because of the milk.
Regards,
Isn’t this is the guy who wrote “Tie Me Kangaroo Down”?
It was probably dark chocolate..................izzat raciss?............
How’d they taste?
I wouldn’t eat it.............
She kept destroying things Peterman bought at auction but never got fired.
If not refrigerated, milk chocolate won’t last even one year.
Ah. Urban sombrero. Cost more jobs than Covid.
I recently learned that Rolf in 2014 was convicted of sexual related crimes against underage females.
Too bad, but I still like the song.
You’re on the right continent, but no..
Love the tune but I never could warm up to those lyrics from Waltzing Matilda. Poach and you’ll be a-waltzin’ Matilda — sounds like a threat of being hanged, if you ask me.
BTW, the tune is said to have been “inspired” by an older Scottish melody called Bonnie Woods of Craigielea.
Have you got a wobble board?
Does your boomerang come back?
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