Rimmer's chest was a wooden chest or trunk owned by Arnold Rimmer, and in which Rimmer kept his most prized possessions. It was the only thing that Rimmer's father had ever given to him, and had been in the Rimmer family for generations. Rimmer considered the chest and its contents as the only link to his early past. The chest was made of Javanese camphor wood, and contained priceless, 18th-century, Napoleonic figures of the Armée du Nord.