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Chocolate Box With 120 Years Old Was Discovered, Let Me Show You
The poet gift and the box discovery in Australia.
“If she knew how beautiful love is, she would already put it in a box, seal, and preserve it.
So she could smell it whenever she wants.”
― Kusumastuti, Denting Lara
Chocolate box was sent in 1900 in the middle of the war to Australia.
The estate of the poet Banjo Paterson recently acquired by the Australian library had this box of chocolates in the bottom of documents, with 120 years old.
Andrew Barton “Banjo” Paterson, CBE was an Australian bush poet, journalist, and author.
He wrote many ballads and poems about Australian life, focusing particularly on the rural and outback areas, including the district around Binalong, New South Wales, where he spent much of his childhood. Wikipedia.
“The chocolate is in good shape,” says Shirleene Robinson to the BBC.
“It is one of the best-preserved chocolates of this age”, says the historian of the Library of Australia, about this box dating from 1900, in which the food survived longer than the aluminum foil that surrounded it.
