What is it?

[Angel Cruz]

Tell me what is is and win a price. Made by Abercrombie and Fitch. Hard black plastic with metal cap. I can fit a 12ga shell, to give you and idea of the size.

[Joe Dreisch]

Match safe?

[Angel Cruz]

Could be..

[Donald F. Mills]

Tooth pick container?

[Dennis Yager]

A Call Coyote or Duck

[Angel Cruz]

Don’t think so Den, can get it to make any noise.

[Jerry Harlow]

Whisky flask for grandma's night time toddy, and a rope goes through it so she can't lose it.

[Angel Cruz]

:rotf::rotf:

[Donald F. Mills]

It’s a whatchmacallit

[Austin J Hawthorne Jr.]

Couldn't find anything like it a 1930 A&F catalog.

[Angel Cruz]

I stuck my finger in it, and it has black powder residue. Also, I don't thing it's waterproof.

[Dean Romig]

If there’s no primer or primer pocket and it is rimless I would suggest it’s a signal flare of some sort.





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[Mike Koneski]

I think it's a hand reloading tool.

[Angel Cruz]

Mike, that’s what I was thinking, I just can’t see how it was used.

[Mike Koneski]

So I won 4 lb of Extra-Lite?

[Dean H Hanson]

Handle

[Arthur Shaffer]

If there is a friction fit in picture #1, I am going to guess a chamber measuring tool. Insert the inner piece into the base until barely held, insert into chamber, close gun and reopen, then measure OAL. Looks like the inner piece is non-tapered and would indicate the length of a fired case.

[Angel Cruz]

Arts, too big to fit a 12ga chamber. The opening measures 7/8 across and it's 2 1/4 deep.

[Angel Cruz]

So I won 4 lb of Extra-Lite?
:rotf::rotf:

[Arthur Shaffer]

If there is a friction fit in picture #1, I am going to guess a chamber measuring tool. Insert the inner piece into the base until barely held, insert into chamber, close gun and reopen, then measure OAL. Looks like the inner piece is non-tapered and would indicate the length of a fired case.

Sorry. I took the opening description to mean that the head part would fit a 12 ga chamber.

Sooo...

What is the the diameter of the rim and head section? My same guess would cover a 10 ga or 8 ga chamber length gauge.

[Angel Cruz]

Art, I took some measurements and yes, the metal cap is a friction fit, hence not waterproofed.
The length with the cap is 3 3/4 and only 3 1/4 without the cap.

[Daryl Corona]

Is it some kind of game call Angel?

[Angel Cruz]

Daryl, I don't think so. The way the metal cap fits, I think it was meant to hold something.

[Fred Verry]

Possibly a quick loader for a large (4 or 6) bore single barrel muzzle loading shotgun? The capped tube would hold the pre measured powder charge, the hole in the end would work for a neck lanyard. Wads and shot flask would be carried separately. I said a single barrel because I can't imagine anyone having just fired a 10 or 12 Dram right and left would want to quickly fire a third and fourth. :rotf:

[David Noble]

What does that marking on the side of the cylinder say?

[Angel Cruz]

It says Made in Italy.

[Arthur Shaffer]

Those dimensions around the head and rim are very close to an 8 gauge industrial shotshell, which incidentally, fit my 1873 W&C Scott and my 1876 Webley.