Urn, Tea
Description
A brass tea urn. It has two wooden side handles, a tap at the front and a chimney at the top. There are Cyrillic letters impressed on top of the main body which read "BADASHEVB 1."
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Classification
Collection
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The
urn
was
used
in
the
Officer's
Mess
at
the
Marsland
Hill
barracks
in
New
Plymouth.
Although
nothing
more
is
known
about
it,
it
may
have
arrived
here
from
Crimea,
as
some
troops
who
fought
in
the
Taranaki
Wars
also
fought
in
Crimea
against
the
Russians.
Accession number
A80.471
Collection type
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