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| Mammoth tooth snuff box |
Used in the Officers Mess of the 87th Foot to hold snuff, this small silver box with its little Barrosa Eagle is highly decorative but very unusual. The body of the box is made from very thin slices of the fossilised tooth of a Mammoth Elephant that has been extinct for about 10,000 years.
'I turned over one poor chap on a rocky, bloody crag on Tanngoucha. He was facing the right way, the last round of a clip in the breech and three dead Germans in front of him. His name was Duff. After all is over - and the remainder of the Empire is understandably irritated with Ireland - I hope these countless Duffs, from both the North and the South, and in all three services, will be remembered.
(Brigadier Nelson Russell, Commander 38 (Irish) Brigade, 1942-44)
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