If you ever worked in a coal mine, you're familiar with this item. These
boxes were used to carry individual sticks of dynamite into coal mines.
Miners would take the number of sticks needed and carry them into the
mine in a box like this one. The homemade hook on the back was so the
box could be hooked to the miner's belt to free up his hands. Similar
boxes were used to carry fuses or blasting caps, but a box this size was
likely used to tote dynamite. The box kept the contents dry ~ and the
miners safe! _________________________________________
It seems Stacee was able to decipher the clues for this month's mystery item:
(1) J.J. "Dy-no-mite" Walker (2) Alfred Nobel, creator of the blasting cap (3) E.I. Dupont, major manufacturer of dynamite until the 1970s
If you ever worked in a coal mine, you're familiar with this item. These
boxes were used to carry individual sticks of dynamite into coal mines.
Miners would take the number of sticks needed and carry them into the
mine in a box like this one. The homemade hook on the back was so the
box could be hooked to the miner's belt to free up his hands. Similar
boxes were used to carry fuses or blasting caps, but a box this size was
likely used to tote dynamite. The box kept the contents dry ~ and the
miners safe!