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Miner's Piece Box

This pressed steel piece box is shaped like traditional pan bread and has a close fitting lid and a loop on the back for hooking onto a miner's belt.

The small Brass Box is for sugar and tea.

As Miners were not allowed to smoke at the Pit, they took to Chewing Tobacco or if they could afford it, Snuff.

The image below is an example of Condor Pigtail chewing tobacco, sold in the mine shops until the vast majority closed in the late 1960’s.

 

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