Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

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.