Picked up a few Bren Chests

[stencollector]

The title is a little bit misleading. It's not really a few but a few hundred. I had been watching the pile, which had been de-composing for the last 40 years, start to fall into itself, so I made the owner an offer which he hapily accepted. I bought them for the hardware, as it is used on other chests like the snipers, mortars, bren drums etc etc. Turns out many of the ones in the center of the pile were in OK condition. Even found a few surprises inside those that we opened. Many had the twisted wire cleaning rod with a return spring on it located in the holders in the lid. One chest even had a spent case with DA 43 PROOF marked on it.....something you don't see everyday.

Anyway, here are a couple photos of the pile now at home and partially covered.

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