Hey there fellow TNers.
So I went out on a walk today to another of my “hunting spots”, a hillside overlooking the seashore with some dugout trenches near a former WW2 machine gun bunker where I have found before some spent shell cases and barbed wire etc.
Today I found absolutely nothing of that kind but I made two odd trench finds.
The glass bottle was under a bush near the trenches. The cursive raised inscription reads “Sedaline”, there’s a “58” on the bottom of the octagonal bottle and the black plastic screw-cap has a “Vita” logo on top. Only thing I could find on the internet was “Sedalin”, a horse tranquilizer that is still in use today but I have no clue if this is the same thing… Has anybody an idea what this bottle contained and maybe give me a timeframe? Glass looks old, has this iridescent glow all over it.
My other find is a brass lipstick case/tube.
There's still red-fuchsia lipstick in it (I guess this is what rasberry means, not flavour but colour). It’s 4,5 cm long with “Michel” stamped on one side of the case and the bottom of the lipstick has “Raspberry” stamped on it. The peculiar thing is that this I found inside one of the trenches! Not on the bottom but kind of on a dirt mound on one side so it could have rolled into over the years of course... Or was this maybe a love-token of some sort, a soldier’s sweetheart gave him to keep with him?
Anyone able to tell the age of this?
Any help appreciated.
So I went out on a walk today to another of my “hunting spots”, a hillside overlooking the seashore with some dugout trenches near a former WW2 machine gun bunker where I have found before some spent shell cases and barbed wire etc.
Today I found absolutely nothing of that kind but I made two odd trench finds.
The glass bottle was under a bush near the trenches. The cursive raised inscription reads “Sedaline”, there’s a “58” on the bottom of the octagonal bottle and the black plastic screw-cap has a “Vita” logo on top. Only thing I could find on the internet was “Sedalin”, a horse tranquilizer that is still in use today but I have no clue if this is the same thing… Has anybody an idea what this bottle contained and maybe give me a timeframe? Glass looks old, has this iridescent glow all over it.
My other find is a brass lipstick case/tube.
There's still red-fuchsia lipstick in it (I guess this is what rasberry means, not flavour but colour). It’s 4,5 cm long with “Michel” stamped on one side of the case and the bottom of the lipstick has “Raspberry” stamped on it. The peculiar thing is that this I found inside one of the trenches! Not on the bottom but kind of on a dirt mound on one side so it could have rolled into over the years of course... Or was this maybe a love-token of some sort, a soldier’s sweetheart gave him to keep with him?
Anyone able to tell the age of this?
Any help appreciated.
