This container was used about a hundred years ago in rugged Wharfedale, around Grassington in the Yorkshire Dales by Eric Walter Crawshaw Simpson, Chris's grandfather.
🟠 Win a riverside hamper full of blended waterfowl food and gifts
🟠 The correct answer will be randomly picked from a pail in two weeks
No one has guessed correctly yet, so we will wait until the end of September...
🟫 The size of the container is 24cm long, 15cm wide and 5cm deep.
🔶️ Sadly no one came forward with a correct answer for the lacquered metal capsule.
🍂 The rounded tin container is known as a vasculum. Vascula were carried by naturalists to collect and transport botanical specimens of leaves and flowers. The curious word vasculum stems from the Latin word for small vessel; coined in the early nineteenth century when the study of the natural world became something of a cult.
Andrew
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