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Originally Posted by things_green
..."The box would originally have had a tin-plate liner with lid. The recesses on the upper edges of the box sides were for the lip of the tin liner and the circular recess on the underside of the box lid was for the lifting handle of the liner."
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Of course it is! Now that's been pointed out I remember having a WW2 wooden ammunition box with exactly that kind of liner. (The lip of the box was a 'U' channel and the edges of the lid were rolled over to fit into that so that when the box was filled, the channel was filled with a putty-like sealant and the lid pressed into that to make it airtight and waterproof. The lifting handle was fixed to the lid by a soldered on strip of tinplate like a rather flat pipe saddle clip.)
Chris.