AN ASPREY NOVELTY OXIDISED COPPER AND BASE METAL CARTRIDGE BUTT MARKER

AN ASPREY NOVELTY OXIDISED COPPER AND BASE METAL CARTRIDGE BUTT MARKER

the base inscribed 'Asprey's Cartridge Place Finder, Patent Applied For', the top with a number six in a triangle and inscribed 'Loaded by Asprey, Smokeless', the rotating action opens the cartridge to reveal eight unmarked numbered pegs, the body inscribed 'From Bill 2-1-37'

6.2cm long (closed)

Provenance

Edmund de Rothschild (1916-2009)

The Trustees of Exbury House

Catalogue Note

From the inscription and dates this was presumably a gift on the occasion of Lionel's 21st birthday.