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Having a sort-out in the garage of basically "scrap" material & these have surfaced again, came from Sylvia's Dads Shed ( many,many years ago)post-3135-0-37063600-1483296485_thumb.jpgpost-3135-0-42932000-1483296504_thumb.jpg

 

Brass tubes/vials 95mm long x 18mm diameter. Brass screw-in cap with sealing washer & a steel shallow bowl "spoon" attached.

 

Base has broad arrow on both bases --plus -- JJB "crown symbol" with "AB" & 13 underneath on No. 1 No.2 has EFD & the arrow is much heavier & wider with swept arms.

 

Would like to know what these were used for if possible,thanks.

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We used to have those in our gun kits filled with oil for our 4x2 wadding.

Very early ones brass, newer ones 70s onwards probably earlier than that they changed to black plastic.

The arrow is the mod crows foot known as the Wally Duncan stamp.

As big as 18mm probably means they were for larger guns, i.e. .50" Browning etc.

This is not absolutely 100'/, fact though but an educated guess.

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The spoon was for feeding very small amounts of oil into the sliding parts grooves. They helped get the oil where it was needed without over lubricating.

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Pronounced "jimpy".

There is possibly a date stamp somewhere, usually around the Wally Duncan stamp area.

This could possibly help on finding the type of weapon it was issued with.

I would think Lee Enfield or Browning era.

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Yep, had the plastic variant, too.

 

Came with a pull-through, the afore mentioned 4x2, both nylon and wire brush and a multi tool, long before Gerber got in on the act.

 

Brings back the memories, not all of them good, but memories none the less. :db:

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Thanks for all the replies -- MarkB's photo shows them perfectly -- no date stamp visible -- although a very small ?6 & 13 appears under an small crown logo, The older looking one has no numbers under the very broad arrow .

 

I thought they may have been for a powder -- given the spoon-shaped applicator.

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