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Old 01-25-2017, 02:54 PM
 
Location: Segovia, central Spain, 1230 m asl, Csb Mediterranean with strong continental influence, 40º43 N
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Hello. Let me show you mates an interesting finding I've seen today while looking a memory chest that my father gave me a while ago.

Apparently, according to him, he just found this 30 years ago while walking in a pine forest located near Segovia, central Spain.

I'm wondering about the time someone from the British Secret Service lost that, but I would say at anytime earlier than the Spanish Civil War as United Kingdom kept neutral in it.

Is it a valuable old item?

http://i63.tinypic.com/2v8s9x0.jpg
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Old 01-25-2017, 03:36 PM
 
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Is it a valuable old item?


No.

Obvious novelty item. If it were produced today, it would probably replace the instructions to eat the key with an even more ridiculous statement about having to kill anybody who asked to borrow it.
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Old 01-26-2017, 05:30 AM
 
Location: SE UK
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Hello. Let me show you mates an interesting finding I've seen today while looking a memory chest that my father gave me a while ago.

Apparently, according to him, he just found this 30 years ago while walking in a pine forest located near Segovia, central Spain.

I'm wondering about the time someone from the British Secret Service lost that, but I would say at anytime earlier than the Spanish Civil War as United Kingdom kept neutral in it.

Is it a valuable old item?

http://i63.tinypic.com/2v8s9x0.jpg
Its just a bit of light-hearted fun, don't worry you don't have to eat it, just have it as a 'keepsake' and put your keys on it.
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Old 01-26-2017, 06:14 AM
 
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I highly doubt an item from MI5 would have "British Secret Service - MI5" written on it. I'd like to think our secret service are more competent than that.

Although I do recall a British spy leaving classified documents on a train a few years back...
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Old 01-26-2017, 02:12 PM
 
Location: Segovia, central Spain, 1230 m asl, Csb Mediterranean with strong continental influence, 40º43 N
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I highly doubt an item from MI5 would have "British Secret Service - MI5" written on it. I'd like to think our secret service are more competent than that.

Although I do recall a British spy leaving classified documents on a train a few years back...
Perhaps they weren't as competent in the past, but who knows.
Anyway, we are not talking about a hot tourist spot like Las Ramblas in Barcelona or Puerta del Sol in Madrid, but a huge pine forest located 60 kilometres away northwest from Madrid, so I don't think that an eco-friendly tourist lost a funny keychain, but someone from the M15 lost an official, proper key from the British Secret Service, perhaps during the Peninsular War:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peninsular_War
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Old 01-26-2017, 02:47 PM
 
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Perhaps they weren't as competent in the past, but who knows.
Anyway, we are not talking about a hot tourist spot like Las Ramblas in Barcelona or Puerta del Sol in Madrid, but a huge pine forest located 60 kilometres away northwest from Madrid, so I don't think that an eco-friendly tourist lost a funny keychain, but someone from the M15 lost an official, proper key from the British Secret Service, perhaps during the Peninsular War:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peninsular_War
Wishful thinking my friend. It's a novelty piece. Items like that can be custom made for a very low price.
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Old 01-26-2017, 03:11 PM
 
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...I don't think that an eco-friendly tourist lost a funny keychain, but someone from the M15 lost an official, proper key from the British Secret Service, perhaps during the Peninsular War...

I own a bridge in New York City. Would you be interested in buying it?
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Old 01-26-2017, 03:45 PM
 
Location: Yorkshire, England
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Perhaps they weren't as competent in the past, but who knows.
Anyway, we are not talking about a hot tourist spot like Las Ramblas in Barcelona or Puerta del Sol in Madrid, but a huge pine forest located 60 kilometres away northwest from Madrid, so I don't think that an eco-friendly tourist lost a funny keychain, but someone from the M15 lost an official, proper key from the British Secret Service, perhaps during the Peninsular War:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peninsular_War
MI5 only became known as MI5 a hundred years after the Peninsular War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MI5#History

Do you honestly think that the writing on that keychain looks like something made 200 years ago?
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Old 01-26-2017, 04:24 PM
 
Location: Tricity, PL
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If captured eat this key? Kinda big to swallow

Not of value. You can buy it here for £2
Brass Key Ring Fob/ Label - British Secret Service - James Bond. - MI5
http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedi...vice-288435026
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Old 01-26-2017, 07:33 PM
 
Location: Portsmouth, UK
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It is very clearly just a joke keychain, the fact that it says "broom cupboard" on it too should make you see that lol
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