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medal box?
« on: Thursday 20 February 25 20:58 GMT (UK) »
Hi,

Have some family WW1 medals in the attached box. Does anyone know what this box was used for in the past?

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MJ

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Re: medal box?
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 20 February 25 21:01 GMT (UK) »
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Re: medal box?
« Reply #2 on: Friday 21 February 25 02:46 GMT (UK) »
Have you had the label translated?

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Re: medal box?
« Reply #3 on: Friday 21 February 25 05:37 GMT (UK) »
There are several German speakers who will probably be able to translate this for you, however if you type the words into an online translator, you should get a gist of it.

First word is “evangelical” so it looks like it might have some religious significance.

Having said that, the way the label is stuck in with text cut off, it doesn’t look like that box originally had that label in - not as it is placed now, at least.

The little pockets obviously must be clues, but I can’t hazard a guess as to it’s original use.

Do the stamped initials DC or DG mean anything to you?

I’m going to make a wild guess here ….. something to do with masons or buffaloes or a secret men’s society?  :)


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Re: medal box?
« Reply #4 on: Friday 21 February 25 07:46 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for that Ruskie. The little German I know says it something to do with Easter Monday - date of 1924 and yes, it has been stuck on and nailed into the lid.

DC - I should have given more context and didn’t think until now. The medals were for my great uncles Jonas Crossley and John Crossley who died in WW1. D probably stands for Dorothy who was their sister and her son gave me the medals. This makes sense, but couldn’t be a Freemason box or club for men. It also looks very masculine for some sort of jewellery box, though I could be wrong.

MJ 

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Re: medal box?
« Reply #5 on: Friday 21 February 25 09:25 GMT (UK) »
Could it be a box to hold gentleman’s detachable collars?
The studs wound go in the small pocket?

I have a similar box, though round, which has an ancestors initials on it.