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General discussion => Antique Gun Collecting => Topic started by: haddockkl on September 22, 2016, 05:42:03 PM

Title: What is this called? Small cap box from English SxS
Post by: haddockkl on September 22, 2016, 05:42:03 PM

I won a lot of English percussion shotgun parts and it included this delightful little cap box, the assembly is about 2.5in from end to end with a tiny lid that covers an opening that is about 5/16ths wide. What is the appropriate term for these? I have seen them nesteled alobg the belly of a few English guns.

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Title: Re: What is this called? Small cap box from English SxS
Post by: T*O*F on September 22, 2016, 09:49:09 PM

It's called a toe box.

Title: Re: What is this called? Small cap box from English SxS
Post by: haddockkl on September 22, 2016, 10:42:51 PM

Thank you

Title: Re: What is this called? Small cap box from English SxS
Post by: Ky-Flinter on September 23, 2016, 12:10:50 AM

Heck, I thought it was a cap box.  How many toes will it hold?  And what does one do with extra toes anyway?

-Ron 

Title: Re: What is this called? Small cap box from English SxS
Post by: Molly on September 23, 2016, 12:28:58 AM

Normally, you only have 10 toes.  This is not where you keep extra ones but where you put those that have been separated from you foot.  The number it holds depends on which toe was removed.  It holds fewer BIG toes than little toes. 

Title: Re: What is this called? Small cap box from English SxS
Post by: Smoketown on September 23, 2016, 02:41:44 AM

It's where you would keep your spare (typically fragile) ivory front sight.

Cheers,
Smoketown

Title: Re: What is this called? Small cap box from English SxS
Post by: Mike Brooks on September 23, 2016, 12:44:35 PM

I keep an M&M in mine.....just in case.

Title: Re: What is this called? Small cap box from English SxS
Post by: T*O*F on September 23, 2016, 04:21:19 PM

Actually, they are used on shotguns to store a worm for pulling a load in the field and are so named for the same reason toe plates are on rifles.

Title: Re: What is this called? Small cap box from English SxS
Post by: Dale C on September 23, 2016, 05:34:26 PM

Quote from: Mike Brooks on September 23, 2016, 12:44:35 PM

I keep an M&M in mine.....just in case.

Is that how you size them? Sort of like fitting a Snickers bar in a patchbox?

Title: Re: What is this called? Small cap box from English SxS
Post by: Steve-In on September 23, 2016, 09:19:20 PM

Quote from: T*O*F on September 23, 2016, 04:21:19 PM

Actually, they are used on shotguns to store a worm for pulling a load in the field and are so named for the same reason toe plates are on rifles.

Thank you, I always thought they were for caps.
I have seen a few caplock rifles have them too.