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  • Display highlights
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  • 'Vigilant' ship model
  • Quarantine bible
  • Lethal knives
  • Fuel tank
  • Silver cup
  • Steel girder
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  • 'Sprightly' ship model
  • Smuggler's body belt
  • Gauging alcohol saccharometer
  • Dancing coke can
  • King's chest
  • Smuggler's ski boots
  • Alaskan grey wolf

Smuggler's ski boots

Guilty secrets - drugs seizure

pair of ski boots

© bigcheese

There is more to this pair of ski boots than meets the eye.

They were seized by HM Customs and Excise in Southend in September 1991. Both the boots had a removable insole revealing a space where Customs Officers found a hidden concealment of drugs.

Accession number CENM2002.26.1-2

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