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Be alert to what markings are on the boxes. I may be wrong, but the British continued using wartime pattern packaging for years and until the replacement with NATO 7.62x51 cartridges. The one in the picture looks Post-Korea. Finding a wartime example might be pricey.

A few years ago I tried to correct an Ebay seller who insisted that a .303BR ammunition box similar to yours, was a genuine WWI Normandy campaign survivor - and attributed to a particular unit! I told him. The former curator of the regimental museum told him. But he insisted that the oldtimer who told him something once upon a time was a more credible source. Oh well. I finally told the Ebay authorities that he was misrepresenting his item, and left it at that.