What is this called? Small cap box from English SxS

[haddockkl]

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.

  

[T*O*F]

It's called a toe box.

[haddockkl]

Thank you

[Ky-Flinter]

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

-Ron 

[Molly]

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. 

[Smoketown]

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

Cheers,
Smoketown

[Mike Brooks]

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

[T*O*F]

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.

[Dale Campbell]

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?

[Steve-In]

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.