Lid to a box of some sort - any ideas?

[time4me]

I found this at a place where many boy scouts have been known to camp for the past 50 years or so.

It looks like the lid to a box, but while the lid stayed in great condition, you can see where the bottom of whatever it is rusted away. I checked the hole over real well to see if there was anything else there, but this is all I found.

The emblem in the middle shows what looks to be a deer head with antlers at the upper right of the shield, and a small celtic looking cross at the lower left of the shield.

 

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[rmptr]

Interesting!

Sry, no clue from me!

Best

 

[hollowpointred]

i dont know, cigarrette case maybe?

 

[BuffaloBob]

It's an odd shape for a cigarette box, with the curved side. Have no idea otherwise. In my scouting days I had a little corn-cob pipe and tried smoking corn silk. Man. Talk about a bad smoke.

 

[sanford.]

I believe its a tip out ash tray from the back seat of an old car. The design looks familiar---Buick maybe ?

 

[rmptr]

Sanford is correct!

I was thinking Buick was three shields (not really a tiger fan) but back in 1937 to 1942 Buick ran the single shield.

Here's the story:


Buick Motor Division's famous "tri-shield" emblem, basically three shields inside a circle, can be traced directly to the ancestral coat of arms of the automaker's Scottish founder ­ David Dunbar Buick.

Buick Motor Division first used the Buick family crest as a decoration just above the radiator grille on its 1937 models, and it was a very close representation of the crest described in Burke's. The shield was "modernized" (made longer top to bottom and narrower in width) in 1939. It was modified again with classic heraldic symbols embellishing the top and bottom of the shield for 1942. That was a short model year because Buick stopped producing cars February 3, 1942, and then converted to World War II military production.


and a pic of the shield...



Best,
rmptr

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

watch out PBK!

 

[rmptr]

BTW, Time4me, if you can manage to find the rest of it, going price is about $40k....

 

[QUICKSILVER (appletree)]

Here is the radiator grill emblem I found with my DUH-TEKTOR a couple of years ago at my old grade school! That find of yours is 100% pop out ash tray! the chrome is in great shape, Congrats!!! HH, QUICKSILVER(appletree)

 

[rmptr]

WoW!

Neato shield, Quicksilver!

You guys gotta get together and find the REST of the car!


rmptr

 

[relichunters]

Maybe it's real silver, and that's why it didn't rust?

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Maybe it's real silver, and that's why it didn't rust?

chrome nickel plated.

 

[QUICKSILVER (appletree)]

WoW!

Neato shield, Quicksilver!

You guys gotta get together and find the REST of the car!


rmptr

LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!LOL