Inherited Items - Info Requested/Identification

[Edwill]

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My Grandfather passed away last month and left me these items. I doubt they worth anything, however the have sentimental value to me. Can anyone tell me anything about them? Is the Ammo Box Rhodie? The FN FAL looks like a paper weight, bronze or copper. I have 2 of them.

Thanks

[Wanderin' Zero]

I am very sorry to hear about your grandfather. These things are always very sad and represent the end of an era. The ammunition box looks like a standard South African Defence Force ammunition box from the period when the R1 rifle was still in common use. Later they shifted to plastic boxes.

The other two items are, I think, paperweights as you say. Albeit interesting ones.

[Edwill]

Thanks WZ. I wonder how he came across an SANDF Ammo Box. They moved here around 80/81, so maybe after that. I know the FN FAL were from Rhodesia, as my mom remembers them! The old man always would say, thats the rifle i had in the Army!

Either way they pretty cool keepsakes!

[Wanderin' Zero]

Thanks WZ. I wonder how he came across an SANDF Ammo Box. They moved here around 80/81, so maybe after that. I know the FN FAL were from Rhodesia, as my mom remembers them! The old man always would say, thats the rifle i had in the Army!

Either way they pretty cool keepsakes!

The South Africans supplied a great deal to the Rhodesians, including about 30,000 R1 rifles. Ammunition would almost certainly have been part of the arrangement.