Description An Asprey novelty copper and brass base metal cartridge place finder in the form of a 12 bore shotgun cartridge. Circa 1930s

Inscriptions

Top - Number 6 in a triangle and inscribed ‘Loaded by Asprey, Smokeless’

Base - “Asprey’s Cartridge Place Finder, Patent Applied for’

Body - ‘Eddie from Bill 2-1-37’. Implies this is a gift to Edmund de Rothchild on the occasion of his 21st birthday

Mechanism The base twists to reveal a raised section of eight numbered pegs

Dimensions 6.2cms long (closed)

Provenance Edmund de Rothchild (1916 - 2009), The Trustees of Exbury House

Condition The opening and closing action is smooth. Almost no original gun metal effect or lacquering