120-year-old chocolate found in Australian poet's belongings

Banjo Paterson: 120-year-old chocolate found in Australian poet's belongings

Banjo Paterson: 120-year-old chocolate found in Australian poet's belongings

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When the National Library of Australia recently acquired famous poet Banjo Paterson's personal belongings, the last thing they expected to find was chocolate.

With links to Queen Victoria, the discovery from 1900 is "one of the best preserved chocolates of this age anywhere", a historian tells the BBC.