808 wooden box

[BMG50]

There was a post on a war time 808 plastic explosive box which for some strange reason has disappeared. I have very similar box, it looks 45 dated from what I can make out, so here are some pictures, just wondering what such a box would fetch and when they stopped using 808.

 

[pysall]

Hi BMG50,

tried to send you a PM but your box appears to be "choked" !
regards,
pysall

 

[BMG50]

Emptied box so send again.

 

[AMMOTECHXT]

Nobel's 808 and 852 were still on the UK's ammo inventory in the 1980s, although obsolescent, being replaced by PE4. The stocks that I saw then were WW2 vintage. Representative samples of each batch (and of PE4) had to be plasticity tested from time to time, ie did it compress by a certain minimum amount under a given weight over a specified time? If it did not then it was unserviceable. I had to help repack some into waxed brown paper, as some of the nitroglycerine had exuded from the explosive. We didn't have disposable gloves then, it was just accepted that if you handled the stuff you would end up with `NG Head', a banging two-day headache.

 

[BMG50]

Anyone thought of a value for such a box.

 

[millsbomber]

I'm selling a PE2 WW2 dated one £40...... Dave