BOX, CHOCOLATE
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- H.R.H. THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH CORONATION SOUVENIR BOX
- Materials
- PAPER
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041940
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- H.R.H. THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH CORONATION SOUVENIR BOX
- Date
- 1953
- Materials
- PAPER
- No. Pieces
- 2
- Height
- 2.8
- Length
- 26
- Width
- 18.5
- Description
- RECTANGULAR CARDBOARD BOX WITH COLOUR IMAGE OF A MAN WEARING A BRITISH NAVAL UNIFORM. PRINTED ON SIDE OF BOX IS "H.R.H. THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH - CORONATION SOUVENIR BOX". PAPER LABEL ON BOTTOM OF BOX READS "CADBURY'S ASSORTED MILK CHOCOLATES". BOX IS GENERALLY WORN, ESPECIALLY ALONG EDGES.
- Subjects
- MERCHANDISING T&E
- Historical Association
- COMMEMORATIVE
- History
- CORONATION BOX WAS FOUND AMONG THE BELONGINGS OF DONOR'S PARENTS. THE NAKAYAMA FAMILY WAS ORIGINALLY FROM VANCOUVER BUT MOVED TO COALDALE FOLLOWING THE SECOND WORLD WAR WHEN THEY WERE INTERNED AT SLOCAN CITY IN THE INTERIOR OF BRITISH COLUMBIA BY THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT. THE DONOR'S FATHER, REV. CANON G.G. NAKAYAMA, WAS AN ANGLICAN MINISTER IN VANCOUVER, AND THEN ESTABLISHED THE CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION IN COALDALE IN 1945 WHERE HE SERVED UNTIL 1970. SEE RECORD P19970041001 FOR EXPANDED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND PERMANENT FILE FOR FURTHER HISTORY.
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041940
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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