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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 10237, member: 25&quot;]It has great geopolitical significance, if little cash value. Once upon a time the Eighth Army considered it worth while to kick the Germans and Rommel out of Libya, and for a while under the slightly British influenced rule of King Idris, shops existed with boxes printed in English to sell this sort of thing to tourists.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then Gadaffi took over and the rest is mostly downhill to the present.</p><p><br /></p><p>So although the item is of modest value, it reflects a briefly civilised period in the turbulent history of North Africa, a region that in the period since the decline and fall of Egypt has never produced a stable state, although if Carthage had ticked off the Romans a little less, they might have lasted longer.</p><p><br /></p><p>The objects&nbsp; just hang about, the history is in your head.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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