This rather plain matchbox case to mark - and probably raise money for? - the new masonic hall in Horsham, Sussex, is to go under the hammer at auction.
What makes it far more valuable than the estimated £20-25 is the date - 1939.
This conjures up enormous emotion, marking as it does the year that World War Two began. And in that war the Nazis stepped up their hideous actions against chosen minorities, including, Jews, gypsies and Freemasons.
Owning this would be a constant reminder of that war, and of sacrifice and of brothers sent to their deaths.
It's being sold by Stacey's auctioneers in Essex.
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