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<p>[QUOTE="ulilwitch, post: 2583927, member: 9773"]Hi Rachel. Is this item a shell casing? Woops just noticed other items. This is what I came up with anyway. Uh oh. A different answer.</p><p>Lightwood & Sons, Partridge Works, Price Street, St.Mary's, Birmingham in WWI. They made all manner of components for small arms, cleaning rods for MGs, rifles and pistols, pullethroughs etc, as well as 84,000 oilers.</p><p><br /></p><p>The acceptance stamp on your example is that of Inspector No.X3. I believe that what you read as "13" is in fact a poorly stamped italic "B" (or Greek Beta) which indicates that the inspector was based at BSA, Birmingham.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ulilwitch, post: 2583927, member: 9773"]Hi Rachel. Is this item a shell casing? Woops just noticed other items. This is what I came up with anyway. Uh oh. A different answer. Lightwood & Sons, Partridge Works, Price Street, St.Mary's, Birmingham in WWI. They made all manner of components for small arms, cleaning rods for MGs, rifles and pistols, pullethroughs etc, as well as 84,000 oilers. The acceptance stamp on your example is that of Inspector No.X3. I believe that what you read as "13" is in fact a poorly stamped italic "B" (or Greek Beta) which indicates that the inspector was based at BSA, Birmingham.[/QUOTE]
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